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From: mbarkah@slate.mines.colorado.edu (Ade Barkah)
Subject: Re: Unix for PC
Message-ID: <1994Dec2.184251.27913@slate.mines.colorado.edu>
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 1994 18:42:51 GMT
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Larry Snyder (larry@rn.com) wrote:
: mark@taylor.infi.net (Mark Davis) writes:

: >There is nothing wrong with SCO either, not as far as stability.  We run
: >our whole hospital on it and I have never seen ANY OS more stable.

: If you can live within it's limitations and are happy using something
: based on a product that's so old (how old is 3.2 these days, 7 years?)..

Well, I must say, that's not a "fair" statement. Indeed SCO
is based on 3.2, but then, so is SVR4. =) It's not like SCO
just let the code stagnate for seven years; they've added
their share of improvements all these times too.

"If it ain't broke..."...

-Ade Barkah