The purpose of this group...
Greg A. Woods
woods at eci386.uucp
Sat Sep 8 02:59:47 AEST 1990
In article <26E3F766.2F57 at tct.uucp> chip at tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
> ...is to discuss "MS-DOS running under Unix by whatever means."
You/we will have a tough time fighting those who want to talk about
running UNIX like stuff on MS-DOS. That's what I honestly thought
this group was about until I saw your message. No, I didn't pay any
attention to the great renaming, mostly because it was all rehash to
me, and I didn't/don't really care how it comes out in the end.
> So to get the ball rolling: Those who have used both Merge/386 and
> VP/ix, which do you prefer?
VP/ix. As far as I'm concerned, I consider Merge to be a brain-
damaged implementation of what it is supposed to be, seemingly done by
a bunch of machine level programmers who know little of the UNIX
philosophy of kernel design. (Though I wouldn't want to claim that
the bloating VP/ix causes in the kernel is a "good thing" either.)
VP/ix works for me, and I use it as little as possible. (We don't
currently have space for a version of UNIX TeX, along with the already
existing copy of MS-DOS TeX, which we would have to keep for a
transition period.) (I use TeX as little as possible too! :-)
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Greg A. Woods
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