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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:2261 comp.os.linux.misc:12587 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!pa.dec.com!usenet.pa.dec.com!jkh From: jkh@sentnl.ilo.dec.com (Jordan Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: DOS vs Linux vs FreeBSD vs Joe Foreman in today's title fight Date: 07 Apr 1994 11:45:28 GMT Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Galway Ireland Lines: 31 Distribution: world Message-ID: <JKH.94Apr7124529@sentnl.ilo.dec.com> References: <CMzw69.92K@tower.nullnet.fi> <2nq530$7hh@hecate.umd.edu> <2nt3fk$b0l@menudo.uh.edu> <2nuo9g$dmb@hecate.umd.edu> <2o075c$kpf@menudo.uh.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: sentnl.ilo.dec.com In-reply-to: cosc19v2@menudo.uh.edu's message of 7 Apr 1994 00:53:48 -0500 Hey! People! What's up here, somebody pour deluxe doses of itching powder into your jockeys this morning?? :-) I don't really see the point of this whole debate. Some people have DOS on their machines. Fine. Some people have DOS and Linux on their machines. That's fine too! Some people (gasp, shock, horror!) have.. DOS and FreeBSD on their machines! Yowza! Great! Some folks, like myself, even have DOS, FreeBSD and Linux on their machines! My god! An ACM Turing award (to say nothing of the Nobel peace prize) is certainly not out of the question! I'd better go rent my Tux now and avoid the rush! :-) All of which brings us to our final conclusion, which is: "So?" There's nothing mutually exclusive about any of these operating systems. It might be argued that trying to _emulate_ one of these OS's from another is a waste of time, but that's not what we're talking about. We're talking about users are perfectly happy to run Microsoft Word (or, in my case, DOOM, "Day of the tentacle" and "Alone in the Dark 2" :-) under DOS and various other bits of software under Linux or FreeBSD and other people, who obviously don't have enough to do, are _flaming_ them for it! Sorry, but I just don't geddit. If I had my choice, I'd have DOS/Windows, FreeBSD and NeXTStep all running on my PC, and I'd use them all for very different and useful purposes. It's just a pity that I can't afford NeXTStep! :-) Jordan