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In article <1992Sep9.092748.3401@infodev.cam.ac.uk> rf@cl.cam.ac.uk (Robin Fairbairns) writes:
>
>In article <1992Sep07.180426.11417@cadlab.sublink.org>,
>martelli@cadlab.sublink.org (Alex Martelli) writes:
>|> lsgriffith@gems.vcu.edu writes:
>|> 	...
>|> :I think it would be a very strong and positive strategic statement for
>|> :DEC to have one box capable of running all THREE operating systems!
>|> 
>|> I think it spells confusion.

No more confusing than what is available on the Intel boxes. You have 
MS-DOS (a lousy excuse for an operating system, but that's another story),
DR-DOS, OS/2, and a couple other similar operating systems which do pretty
much the same thing in a different way -- they all run DOS programs.

>|> :What other workstation would be able to boast such flexibility?
>|> 
>|> Any workstation based on Intel-386 and similar chips.  Far more than three
>|> operating systems are available and reasonably popular on such boxes.
>
>The question _should_ have been "What other workstation _vendor_ ...";
>however, I'm inclined to agree with Alex's characterisation of the
>situation.  Pity, really.

Ah, but how many Intel-based machines can run three or more operating
systems at once? I have heard that one can run OSF/1, OpenVMS, and 
Windows NT _concurrently_ on an Alpha box.


Chris
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