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From: poffen@molehill (Russ Poffenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Use a 386 unix as a home machine?
Message-ID: <1989Dec24.193619.19545@sj.ate.slb.com>
Date: 24 Dec 89 19:36:19 GMT
References: <2910@infmx.UUCP> <207@comcon.UUCP>
Reply-To: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Organization: Schlumberger ATE, San Jose, CA
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In article <207@comcon.UUCP> tim@comcon.UUCP (Tim Brown) writes:
>
>I would never buy unix specifically to run DOS.  You buy unix because it
>is better and use the capability to run DOS to get over the addiction.
>Bottom line, what could you need DOS for that unix can't do better
>anyway?   Put a litle more diplomatically, If you *really* want to be
>ablt to run DOS, with no strings attached in so far as compatibility is
>concerned, run DOS. 
>

Well, I don't know about anyone else, but I can think of just ONE good reason
that you want good msdos compatibility, and that is to run all those tens of
thousands of msdos programs that AREN'T available under UNIX. Personally, I use
UNIX all day at work on a Sun workstation and wish dearly that I could get a
good BSD unix for my home PC, yet retain msdos compatibility for all those
msdos programs I have.

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