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From: jmann@bigbootay (Jim Mann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: OS/2 vs. Unix
Keywords: Invitation for opinions/flames...
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Date: 18 Dec 89 17:34:40 GMT
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Reply-To: jmann@bigbootay.sw.stratus.com (Jim Mann)
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One big reason for DOS over Unix is that DOS is friendly to the 
non-computer whiz.  (And that's saying a lot, since DOS has its
problems.)  For example, to display a file under DOS, I use
'type' or the near-universal bit of freeware 'd'. That's lots
easier to remember than 'cat.'

As for the fact that OS/2 is multi tasking but not multiuser, I consider
this a feauture, not a bug.  I think that one of the great advances in
computers in the last 10 years has been that everyone can have his/her
own box (with no other users to do things to crash it) but still be connected
to a network allowing data sharing as desired.