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Article #10795Re: <None> (Should be Open Systems, bloody NEWS system...)
From: Wong Sai Kee (Graduate Assistant...
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 06:52
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 06:52
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dfox@quack.sac.ca.us (David Fox) writes: >>|>> So far, the most "open" system I can think of is a 386 running DOS: >>|>> - systems available from all sorts of people >>|>> - CPU's available from (at least) AMD, Intel, IBM, and Cyrix >I don't agree. For a system to be open requires it not to be >proprietary. Of course, 386s running DOS are a lot more 'open' than >Macintoshes, for example. But Unix (or at least _some_ unixes) foster Have you program Mac before? I think it is more open than MS-DOS.
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Newsgroups: comp.arch Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk!cucs5.cs.cuhk.hk!skwong From: skwong@cuse1.se.cuhk.hk (Wong Sai Kee (Graduate Assistant)) Subject: Re: <None> (Should be Open Systems, bloody NEWS system...) Message-ID: <1992Dec22.065237.5008@cucs5.cs.cuhk.hk> Sender: news@cucs5.cs.cuhk.hk Organization: Faculty of Engineering, The Chinese U. of Hong Kong References: <jdd.724022716@cdf.toronto.edu> <1992Dec14.191335.2834@lsl.co.uk> <BzGL07.2wK@dscomsa.desy.de> <fWPrzAU@quack.sac.ca.us> Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 06:52:37 GMT Lines: 12