Re^2: THE MOST TASTELESS OS (MSDOS)

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From: Peter Busser
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 23:57

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Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:

>In article <1992Aug21.231603.3615@darwin.ntu.edu.au> nunn@nutmeg.cs.ntu.edu.au (JsNO  BAR---NUNN) writes:
>> 
>> CONCLUSION:
>> 
>>   Microsoft!!....invent UNIX and make it free. The UNIX system is perfect,
>> nothing bets UNIX. UNIX rules the world and UNIX was implemented properly!.
>> If you can't do that, give us the source code for messy. At least that way,
>> 32 bits hackers can built it 32 bits.

>IBM has already done it. It's called OS/2 2.0. *NIX are good, but OS/2 gives
>much of the same power and functionality in user-friendly form that is -
>comparatively and in real terms - easy to use.

Yeah, but it's not an open system. What if IBM in it's eternal wisdom decides
that OS/2 v3.0 should only run on MCA machines? (The same goes for Windows/NT).
OS/2 applications run on nothing else but OS/2 and that means that once you
have invested in OS/2 software, you're stuck with OS/2.

Greetings,
Peter Busser

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