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From: mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU (Mark Crispin)
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Subject: Re: IBM PC prehistory
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Date: 9 Jan 90 02:22:49 GMT
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In article <13504@nsc.nsc.com> amos@nsc.nsc.com (Amos Shapir) writes:
>Quite the contrary - Unix made its way into the PC market *despite* the fact
>that it needed 68k-like architecture, not *because* of it.  Its main
>advantage over DOS is the sophisticated user interface; the fact that
>it's hard to put UNIX on a 86-like architecture was an undesirable
>side effect.  If IBM had chosen an architecture that was easier to
>put UNIX on, there would have been a lot more hardware to spread UNIX
>around on, and the domination of UNIX-based workstation would have started
>much earlier.

Is this guy on drugs or what?
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