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From: pat@seradg.Dayton.NCR.COM (Patrick Pesch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: A different View of the value of OS/2 - it's better than Unix
Message-ID: <820@seradg.Dayton.NCR.COM>
Date: Fri, 25-Sep-87 21:24:52 EDT
Article-I.D.: seradg.820
Posted: Fri Sep 25 21:24:52 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 27-Sep-87 10:21:11 EDT
References: <494@parcvax.Xerox.COM> <961@looking.UUCP> <498@parcvax.Xerox.COM> <230@hobbes.UUCP> <476@cimcor.UUCP>
Reply-To: pat@seradg.Dayton.NCR.COM (0000-Patrick Pesch)
Organization: SE-Retail Advanced Development, NCR Corp, Dayton
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In article <476@cimcor.UUCP> mike@cimcor.UUCP (Michael Grenier) writes:
>In article <230@hobbes.UUCP>, root@hobbes.UUCP (John Plocher) writes:
>> +---- lots of DOS/Unix "talk" deleted ----+
>> 
>> The biggest difference I've found in the DOS -vs- Unix war is that I can set
>> up a development environment (WP, C, debugging...) on a 10Mb hard disk under
>> DOS and still have about 8 Meg free for my programs.  A similarly configured
>> Unix system wouldn't even fit on 10Mb!  Why should Joe Dosuser bother
>> with "disk hog" Unix?
>
>Actually, a simialarly configured Unix will fit in the space you
>mention - My Microport boot disk provides most or all of the things
>that DOS does. Sure its single user mode, and doesn't have the print
>spoolers, and the uucp communications, etc - but neither does DOS!

	[...]

Hurrah!  Somebody has finally made the distinction between a high power
monitor program [DOS :-)] and a full blown operating system complete with
useful utilities, development tools, etc...

Also, comparing the costs of each of the above configurations for Joe User
can be suprising...  Unix packages include "C" compilers, development tools,
text processing, choice of user shells (SCO Xenix has 3), communications,
electronic mail, print spooling, and (most) have some games to boot!  Let's
make sure we are comparing "operating systems" or included utilities, etc...
when we compare Unix/ OS/2 / DOS.



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