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From: ram%shukra@Sun.COM (Renu Raman, Sun Microsystems)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Unix vs. OS/2 (was RE: Pournelle on Unix)
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Date: 10 Jan 88 18:32:28 GMT
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In article <7067@ncoast.UUCP> allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) writes:
>[We haven't seen the line-eater since we sent Minnifield and Dixon after it!]

>    The biggest plus is portability.  80X86 is not the world.  Not everybody
     like apples and not everbody like oranges. If and when OS/2 runs
     on my desktop machine (you  can guess the processor) as well as any
     processor that ranges from X86 to Cray's to IBM's biggies 
     with all the features that you mention, then it deserves to be
     compared with UNIX.  

     two questions:

     Looks like the features in OS/2 will make VM/CMS and other IBMers
     drool.  Will IBM provide OS/2 on their mainframes?

     Would you get source if you want to?

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