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Article #1471Re: THE MOST TASTELESS OS (MSDOS)
From: Budi Rahardjo
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 12:18
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 12:18
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In <1992Aug22.055509.3859@dmp.csiro.au> lachlan@dmp.csiro.au (Lachlan Cranswick) writes: >georged@sequent.com (George Dolbier) 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. >>I guess you have not really looked at the guts of unix have you.... >>You should not open yourself to snipers by comparing DOS to UNIX. They are >>just not compareable. >Right on Bro!!! >Would anyone out there in net-land flame me for suggesting that the >above above BOZO has never had to install or maintain a UNIX system. >Unix may be good if you have someone else to keep >it going for you (i.e. the systems manager) >but try installing it!!! At least DOS is relatively simple but - FYI, Linux (a free unix clone for 386 and above) is easy to install. Just copy (use rawrite.exe to be exact) the boot disk and root disk, insert the boot disk and ctrl-alt-del ... that's it. Follow up to comp.os.linux -- budi -- Budi Rahardjo <rahardj@ccu.umanitoba.ca> Unix Support - Computer Services - University of Manitoba
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!decwrl!access.usask.ca!ccu.umanitoba.ca!rahardj From: rahardj@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Budi Rahardjo) Subject: Re: THE MOST TASTELESS OS (MSDOS) Message-ID: <1992Aug22.121841.14606@ccu.umanitoba.ca> Keywords: Unknown Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada References: <1992Aug21.231603.3615@darwin.ntu.edu.au> <1992Aug21.191739.9028@sequent.com> <1992Aug22.055509.3859@dmp.csiro.au> Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 12:18:41 GMT Lines: 29