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From: byron@gemini.cc.gatech.edu (Byron A Jeff)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: I hope this won't ignite a major flame war, but I've got to know!
Date: 20 Jul 1994 12:12:45 GMT
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In article <mrg.774688509@dynamo>, matthew green <mrg@mame.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
>
>this is not intended as a flame to any of the authors cited.
>
>
>byron@cc.gatech.edu (Byron A Jeff) writes:
>>Well Linux is Posix compliant which means it has features of
>>both SV and BSD but favors SV.
>
>to me, you're hinting that netbsd and freebsd are not posix
>compliant, which is plain wrong.

I implied so such thing. I cannot comment in any way, shape, form, or fashion
on any of the BSD variants because I've never used any of them. I comment
on Linux only because that's what I use.

BAJ
-- 
Another random extraction from the mental bit stream of...
Byron A. Jeff - PhD student operating in parallel - And Using Linux!
Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332   Internet: byron@cc.gatech.edu