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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sys5.r4
- Subject: Re: What is lacking in UNIX? (Re: UNIVEL MUST BE KIDDING!!!!!)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.203954.9175@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 20:39:54 GMT
- References: <1992Dec19.010713.23959@isc-br.isc-br.com> <1992Dec22.100028.26428@fasttech.com>
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- In article <1992Dec22.100028.26428@fasttech.com>, zeke@fasttech.com (Bohdan Tashchuk) writes:
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- | Ie, you need compatibility with existing applications, or new applications
- | that are just as good and don't cost any more per copy. The home PC market
- | isn't going to use Unix unless it runs sofware like Excel and Word for Windows
- | and Managing Your Money and Prodigy and the hundreds of other apps that people
- | have accumulated over the years.
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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.
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- If a cheap UNIX with reasonably easy admin came along it would compete
- without running DOS applications. But soon, before there are so many
- other systems no one can see UNIX.
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- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
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