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From: tzs@u.washington.edu (Tim Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.linux.help!
Subject: Re: BSD vs Linux
Date: 10 Jun 1994 08:24:06 GMT
Organization: University of Washington School of Law, Class of '95
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In article <stanbCr3uKx.KwG@netcom.com>, Stan Brown <stanb@netcom.com> wrote:
>>: Which is better? Easier to use etc etc.
>>JESUS CHRIST...will this thread ever end? ;)
>	Look, this is a FAQ.  Some of us have (and others will be) just 
>discovered (to our joy) how many different flavors of free/cheap *NIX's
>there are out ther.  

Clearly, what is really needed is for someone to do a 386 virtual machine,
so that you all can run all the different flavors of free/cheap *NIX's
at the same time.  Then it won't matter which is best--you'll have them
all.  Include in your virtual hardware a virtual ethernet card so that
you can network the operating systems together.

(This, of course, assumes that the 386 can be virtualized.  I've heard it
claimed that this is not possible--I think there was some problem with
virtualizing the MMU--but the person who told me this never got around to
giving me the copy of the paper he had received that discussed it.  Anyone
know more about this?)

--Tim Smith