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From: usotsuki@buric.co (Steve Nickolas)
Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2016 11:32:24 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [TUHS] MS-DOS
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On Sat, 2 Jul 2016, Ronald Natalie wrote:

>>
>> I think OS/2 was certainly closer to Unix than MS-DOS was.
>>
> Mostly it had the ugliness of both systems.

Not gonna deny that, having been tinkering around with porting stuff to 
the earliest versions of OS/2 lately.

(Actually, I was trying to see if I could make a sort of quasi-'nix out of 
OS/2 1.0 using Watcom. ;) Haven't been doing too well at that because of 
Watcom's limited libc.)

-uso.