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- From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sys5.r4
- Subject: Re: What is lacking in UNIX? (Re: UNIVEL MUST BE KIDDING!!!!!)
- Message-ID: <16192@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 05:03:40 GMT
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- > My goodness I'm sure as soon as the Apple/Amiga/whatever users find
- >that out they'll drop those machine like a rock.
-
- There are probably millions more PCs at home that run DOS than there are
- home computers running *all* other OSes. (And yes, that "millions" is
- intended to be taken literally.)
-
- I suspect that without the ability to run DOS and Windows applications,
- UNIX would, at best, be a niche player, just as the Amiga is, at least
- in the US, as far as I know.
-