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From: fortin@zap.uniforum.qc.ca (Denis Fortin)
Subject: Re: BSD UNIX
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In article <michaelv.747084422@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon) writes:
>Linux is a completely different beast.  [...]
>Until recently, its networking was not at all complete.  They have recently 
>adopted Net/2, but it is still somewhat buggy.

Actually, I recently discovered by reading one of the Linux FAQs that 
Linux's Net-2 simply means "the second release of the Linux networking
code" and has nothing to do with Berkeley's Net/2 (which I originally
thought it was).
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Denis, fortin@zap.uniforum.qc.ca