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From: gph@hpsemc.HP.COM (Paul Houtz)
Newsgroups: comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: When you have to go as fast as possible (was Re: Re^2: Unix bigotry)
Message-ID: <3200001@hpsemc.HP.COM>
Date: 2 Mar 89 23:27:30 GMT
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karl@ficc.uu.net (karl lehenbauer) writes:

>Although the various Unix bashers each have their own ideas of what's better,
>none of them provide the vendor and architecture independence of Unix.
>If you run AOS, VMS, NOS, CMS, TSO, Multics, MS-DOS, OS/2, etc, *you are
>locked in* to a vendor and a product line.  If you have a lot of money and
>don't care to pay a high premium for hardware and software, that's fine.


   Careful, Karl.  MS-DOS may be sold by one vendor, but it runs on more,
different machines than Unix.   MS-DOS run more programs than unix, and 
the number of MS-DOS users dwarfs the number of Unix users.

   If you want to talk about a de-facto standard, MS-DOS is a better 
candidate, if you are ONLY interested in not being *locked in* to
a given vendors HARDWARE or APPLICATION SOFTWARE.