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From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr)
Subject: Re: Impressions: FreeBSD vs Linux
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Date: Mon, 11 Apr 1994 03:01:18 GMT
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In article <2o6ral$shj@eve.adam.com.au> steve@adam.com.au (Stephen White) writes:
>Mark Newton (newton@cleese.apana.org.au) wrote:
>: I think the rapidity with which Linux's dosemu has developed is due to
>: the fact that most Linux people are DOSers who have been convered to UNIX.
>
>The development of dosemu is due to the work of a couple of people, with
>various people testing it.
>
>If there were a couple of BSDers who decided to write a DOS emulator for
>BSD, would most BSD people be DOSers who have been converted to Unix?
>Remember that a lot of BSD people have been asking for a DOS emulator.
>

I am not asking for a dos emulator I just boot dos. There is very
little need in my case to run dos stuff under FreeBSD. Perhaps
some linux users have a *great* desire to do so :)

Amancio
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