From: evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans) Subject: Re: Linux beoming a real choice? Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1993 15:05:06 GMT
Stephen Tweedie (sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk) wrote:
: On 9 Jun 93 15:26:29 GMT, richb@jti.com (Rich Braun) said:
:
: What new operating systems? Windows NT? OS/2 2.1? Great single-user
: systems, sure, but they won't replace Unix because they just ain't
: multi-user. Unix has had X for years, but Microsoft and IBM still
: haven't got a graphical user interface which can be automatically run
: remotely. NeXTstep, Solaris and Univel have a real opportunity to
: bring this advantage home, and NeXT at least has a user interface
: every bit as good as Windows'.
There are X servers for DOS and for OS/2.
The OS/2 one dosn't look too good and it is quite easy to crash the
server.
So far as for DOS the only thing I have heard anyone say is "yuck"