Lawrence Kirby wrote:

>  Unix
> was gaining strength from the exposure it was getting in Universities.

Yes.

> Most people who bought DOS weren't even aware that Unix existed.
>

In the early 80's that was true. But in the late 80's UNIX was known toreplace
other OS's. It did. But now there in Windows NT in the horizon,
which for the most part has been behind Novell Netware, and I think
has almost killed it.
What does this have to do with Smalltalk?
Everything!
Smalltalk was created in Xerox PARC as was the graphic workstation,
the mouse and the ethernet. Guess which part is missing in every single
desktop...

> > They did not see that UNIX provided better performance (for
> >the money), or that is was more reliable - which it wasn't at the time.
>
> What is your definition of "relaiblae"?

Relaiblae? It must be latin for reliable ;^)Everybody knows it means "performs as
expected".
UNIX didn't stay up more than 3 days until LINUX was born.
I've seen linuxes uptime as long as 1 year.
Long life to Linux.

> >Finally, I don't understand why everyone is in such vehement opposition to
> >me on this.  Even if you *don't* believe that there have been better systems
> >than UNIX in the past, you must admit that UNIX is *NOT* perfect;

I would have to see the original Smalltalk box to see if it was better or not.I
think they must have been a big powerful workstation easily configurable
as a Mac and easily programable as any Smalltalk environment seen today
(probably Squeak).
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