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Mark Crispin writes:

>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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Not at all, Mark, but from your signature insert, I'd say you were.

- D. Roberts