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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:5150 comp.os.386bsd.misc:1026 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!netcomsv!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: NetBSD-0.9 partitioning Message-ID: <hastyCDGHIw.L8F@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <1993Sep8.231610.9740@ccds3.ntu.edu.tw> <JTSILLA.93Sep12213741@damon.ccs.northeastern.edu> <277do6$4hj@fw.novatel.ca> Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1993 16:52:07 GMT Lines: 27 In article <277do6$4hj@fw.novatel.ca> hpeyerl@novatel.ca (Herb Peyerl) writes: > >NOTE: This is a repost of message <276kq0$2u9@fw.novatel.ca> (T.P.) > >James Tsillas (jtsilla@damon.ccs.northeastern.edu) wrote: > >: Having two very similar (if not three) operating systems seems to me >: like a incredible waste of personal resource and will give rise to much >: duplicate (triplicate?) work for what appear to be simply religious >: reasons. >: There are no good reasons that I can see for keeping the efforts >: separate. The arguments that we need an experimental release of the OS > >I don't understand what all the whining is about... I see nothing wrong >with a little bit of parallelism... After all; where would the world be We do have a very strong competition and it is called Linux. If we wish to win against linux, we are going to need everything that we got plus a bit more like in terms of marketing to spread the *bsd word around. Amancio -- This message brought to you by the letters X and S and the number 3 Amancio Hasty | Home: (415) 495-3046 | ftp-site depository of all my work: e-mail hasty@netcom.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/incoming