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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
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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