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Subject: Re: One downsmanship (Was:Re: Linux vs *BSD (new twist))
Message-ID: <DHOLLAND.94Jun14123246@husc7.harvard.edu>
From: dholland@husc7.harvard.edu (David Holland)
Date: 14 Jun 94 12:32:46
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iwalker@kaiwan.com's message of 13 Jun 1994 23:07:59 -0700 said:

 > >rt-11 sucked. That's about all you can say...
 >
 > rt-11 ran real well from paper tape with 16K memory and was truely a
 > Real Time OS.

Perhaps, but if you tried to boot it from a disk... look cross-eyed at
it while it was booting, and bye-bye filesystem.

It did a passable job of running DUNGEON, though.

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