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From: mark@rpp386.cactus.org (Mark Lehmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Unexpandable megas
Message-ID: <17472@rpp386.cactus.org>
Date: 21 Dec 89 03:12:27 GMT
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Reply-To: mark@rpp386.UUCP (Mark Lehmann)
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>Why do people assume that PCs are DOS-ONLY-FOR-EVER-AND-EVER systems?
>One can run UNIX and X11 any time of the day. 
> (and call DOS in a window, if necessary).
>Ever heard of DOS Extenders?
>
>A 386SX motherboard (20Mhz) that costs $311 comes with sockets for 8Mb.
> (and 6 expantion slots :-)

Thank you.  Now I know that every one in this world does not assume that 
DOS is the only operating system for an Intel xxx86 machine.

In fact from my experience, I have seen AT&T's UNIX, SCO's Xenix, IBM's AIX,
Microsoft OS/2, IBM's OS/2, CP/M, and I think PICK's operating system on an
IBM family Intel machine.
 
Now, what about for Atari.  I hardly see people refer to much other than TOS.
But, at least we don't have the TOS only stereo type.
 
I have seen TOS, DOS, MINIX, OS/9, C-SH, Apple MAC OS, and CP/M run on the
ST, and do it well.
 
Kind of interesting trivia.  Does anyone have any other operating systems to
add to the list?

Mark Lehmann
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