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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.GR2W.H05@ferranti.com>
- Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
- References: <id.89SV.GJ8@ferranti.com> <1992Dec18.014048.26507@Celestial.COM> <1h8cscINNnem@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 23:02:16 GMT
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- In article <1h8cscINNnem@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> haynes@cats.ucsc.edu (Jim Haynes) writes:
- > In article <something> <somebody> writes:
- > >In <something else> <somebody else> writes:
- > >:> What is lacking ?
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- > >:The ability to stick a floppy in a brand new computer, turn it on, and
- > >:have it come up running UNIX.
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- > If UNIX were as simple to install and configure as DOS it would be as
- > useful as DOS.
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- You don't consider multitasking, multiuser security, and so on to be useful?
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