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From: schow@bnr-public.uucp (Stanley Chow)
Newsgroups: comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: Why Unix is good (was Re: Unix bigotry) LONG
Summary: MS/DOSC vs Unix on speed
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Date: 22 Feb 89 20:01:52 GMT
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In article <3151@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>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.

  Be careful, I sense some hostility towards Unix on your part. This
  could get you flamed royally. [If I misinterpret your yes, sorry]

>
>> 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.
>

  Interesting. How about speed of OS operations? Like the famous wildcard
  expansion in the shell? E.g., DIR vs ls, TYPE vs more, mkdir vs mkdir,
  RENAME *.o *.oo vs mv ??, file creation speed, ...


>> 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.

  I hope you only had to port to it as opposed to actually editing and
  compiling on it. If you actually had to use an XT as a development
  platform, you have my deepest sympthies and much admiration.

>-- 
>Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation.
>Work: uunet.uu.net!ficc!peter, peter@ficc.uu.net, +1 713 274 5180.   `-_-'
>Home: bigtex!texbell!sugar!peter, peter@sugar.uu.net.                 'U`
>People have opinions. Companies have policy. And typos are my own business.



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		  (613) 763-2831

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enough to get me into trouble.  [Famous last words]
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