Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1a 12/4/83; site rlgvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!rlgvax!guy From: guy@rlgvax.UUCP (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: Computerworld 2/6/84 Message-ID: <1713@rlgvax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 16-Feb-84 22:39:08 EST Article-I.D.: rlgvax.1713 Posted: Thu Feb 16 22:39:08 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 18-Feb-84 03:36:03 EST References: <1583@pur-ee.UUCP> Organization: CCI Office Systems Group, Reston, VA Lines: 17 > One more quote, from Kenneth Lim, a research analyst with Dataquest, Inc: > "Unix has no importance in the micro market", primarily because > the powerful and sophisticated system has yet to prove itself > in the business environment. > Gee, somebody better tell Sun and Masscomp and Pyramid and Callan and Pixel > and everybody else in the *nix business about this right away! Well, to be fair, by "business environment" he probably means the great unwashed masses of COBOL jockeys, or the people who build the computers whose terminals sit at hotel reservation desks, etc.. On the other hand, I don't know how well CP/M or MS-DOS has proved itself in that business environment, either. Guy Harris {seismo,ihnp4,allegra}!rlgvax!guy