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From: pechter@scr1.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Why unix doesn't catch on
Keywords: multitasking
Message-ID: <313@scr1.UUCP>
Date: 16 Apr 89 14:40:02 GMT
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Reply-To: pechter@scr1.UUCP (Bill Pechter)
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The Xenix os (if AT&T won't let'em call it Unix I won't either) works fairly
well on even 8086 machines like my AT&T 6300.

The problem with MS-DOS it it's CP/M on STEROIDS.  Bigger, bulkier but really
not too much better...


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**    Why is it called software when it's so hard to install. RTF what?      **