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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: Why Unix is good (was Re: Unix bigotry) LONG
Message-ID: <3151@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 21 Feb 89 20:51:42 GMT
References: <117@spectra.COM> <692@cvbnet2.UUCP> <3101@ficc.uu.net> <299@bnr-fos.UUCP>
Organization: Xenix Support
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In article <299@bnr-fos.UUCP>, schow@bnr-public.uucp (Stanley Chow) writes:
> As to MS/DOS, would you really put Unix in the same class as MS/OOS?

Yes.

> It isn't really fair to compare an 8088 on floppy to an 68030
> with a fast 60 MB drive and ethernet. :-) :-)

But it is fair to compare MS-DOS on a PC/XT and UNIX on the same machine.

I had opportunity, a few years ago, to compare these two systems. Apart
from the obvious advantages, I was mildly surprised to discover that
on this 8088-based machine with 640K and a 10 meg drive, UNIX (Xenix,
actually) was *faster*, both in disk I/O and (for well behaved MS-DOS
programs) screen I/O.

> MS/DOS can get by with so few commands is that users (like me) use it
> to get into an application and forget about MS/DOS. (That shows you
> what I think about MS/DOS.)

This is a good point. I, on the other hand, had to do software development
on the beast.
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