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Article #39736Re: Unexpandable megas
From: Mark Lehmann
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1989 03:12
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1989 03:12
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>Why do people assume that PCs are DOS-ONLY-FOR-EVER-AND-EVER systems?
>One can run UNIX and X11 any time of the day.
> (and call DOS in a window, if necessary).
>Ever heard of DOS Extenders?
>
>A 386SX motherboard (20Mhz) that costs $311 comes with sockets for 8Mb.
> (and 6 expantion slots :-)
Thank you. Now I know that every one in this world does not assume that
DOS is the only operating system for an Intel xxx86 machine.
In fact from my experience, I have seen AT&T's UNIX, SCO's Xenix, IBM's AIX,
Microsoft OS/2, IBM's OS/2, CP/M, and I think PICK's operating system on an
IBM family Intel machine.
Now, what about for Atari. I hardly see people refer to much other than TOS.
But, at least we don't have the TOS only stereo type.
I have seen TOS, DOS, MINIX, OS/9, C-SH, Apple MAC OS, and CP/M run on the
ST, and do it well.
Kind of interesting trivia. Does anyone have any other operating systems to
add to the list?
Mark Lehmann
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!execu!sequoia!rpp386!mark From: mark@rpp386.cactus.org (Mark Lehmann) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Unexpandable megas Message-ID: <17472@rpp386.cactus.org> Date: 21 Dec 89 03:12:27 GMT References: <8912120805.AA00886@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <370006@acf5.NYU.EDU> Reply-To: mark@rpp386.UUCP (Mark Lehmann) Organization: Mark Lehmann Lines: 30