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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: <3200004@hpsemc.HP.COM>
Date: 8 Mar 89 19:11:04 GMT
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campbell@redsox.UUCP (Larry Campbell) writes:

> In article <3200001@hpsemc.HP.COM> gph@hpsemc.HP.COM (Paul Houtz) writes:
>}   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.
>.
>Sorry folks, I just couldn't let this one go by.  "MS-DOS ... runs on more,
>different machines than Unix."  That's utterly ridiculous.  It runs ONLY on
>Intel 8086-family chips.  Period.  MS-DOS will *never* run on anything else
>(sigh, I know about the various software emulations of the 8086, big deal...)

   I apologize for the accidental insertion of the period in the sentence 
"more, different".   It was a typo.   In fact, I concur that Unix runs on 
more, different machines than MSDOS.  It is true that MDDOS only runs on the
8086 family.  However, MSDOS I contend that more people use MSDOS on more
machines than any other operating system.  

   Per your assertion that few people really use MSDOS,  rather they use    
the applications instead, well, I will grant you that.  I said in my posting
that "MSDOS runs more programs than unix".