17 Mar
2021
17 Mar
'21
10:40 p.m.
On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 05:29:40PM -0400, Henry Bent wrote:
My first home Unix machine was a 3B1. It was great. There is just
something so bloody limiting about DOS when you compare it to Unix.
Unix was for developers, DOS was for end users. Entirely different
beasts.
That said, System V was very limited compared to BSD. BSD was much
closer to what we have today, it felt friendly, System V felt sort
of corporate. To me at least.
--lm
I mean, mail
without Internet is pretty useless, althouhg I understand it
could be useful for inter-company communications. And yes, it had vi and
the
Bourne Shell. But still, it feels very very limited, this Xenix version,
from a user's point of view.
Which might well explain why Xenix failed to gain much ground with normal
folks at home. If you used a UNIX at work, sure, you might want to pay the
money to have it at home. But why spend the $ for an operating system that
didn't have widespread application development?