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- From: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva)
- Subject: Re: What is lacking in UNIX? (Re: UNIVEL MUST BE KIDDING!!!!!)
- Message-ID: <id.0R2W.M24@ferranti.com>
- Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
- References: <1992Dec19.010713.23959@isc-br.isc-br.com> <1992Dec22.100028.26428@fasttech.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 22:46:48 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.100028.26428@fasttech.com> zeke@fasttech.com (Bohdan Tashchuk) writes:
- > You can give Unix away for free and you won't penetrate the home PC market
- > until you have
-
- > a better dos than dos
- > a better Windows than Windows
-
- That depends on the definition of penetrate. If you have a good enough product,
- you can sell millions of units despite DOS emulation problems... look at the
- Amiga or Macintosh. I don't know if UNIX is far enough ahead on other areas
- to still be able to pull this off, though. The gap is narrowing.
-
- But you DO need the ability to stick the machine in a naive user's hands and
- let them rip. You think UNIX can handle that? When you can stick the machine
- on a showroom floor, unmonitored, with the root password taped to the monitor
- without having to reload it every day *then* it's ready.
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