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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.misc:28467 comp.os.386bsd.misc:3891 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!caen!usenet.cis.ufl.edu!clas.ufl.edu!ppp-14-housing-ts1.nerdc.ufl.edu!brucem From: brucem@neufhou.mail.ufl.edu (Bruce H. McIntosh) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: The ULTIMATE comment on operating systems Date: Mon, 31 Oct 1994 14:58:15 LOCAL Organization: University of Florida Division of Housing Lines: 24 Message-ID: <brucem.68.01A17A65@neufhou.mail.ufl.edu> References: <085334Z20101994@anon.penet.fi> <newcombe.902.0102A9AA@aa.csc.peachnet.edu> <38i2sc$p71@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <38r6a9$6l8@shum.cc.huji.ac.il> <CyEG0F.94K@indirect.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp-14-housing-ts1.nerdc.ufl.edu X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev B final beta #4] In article <CyEG0F.94K@indirect.com> wes@indirect.com (Barnacle Wes) writes: >Oh yeah! I'll stack my H-8 against your ZK-81 any day! And I'll win, >since my H-8 weighs enough to crush your ZX-81! >;^) We all know that HDOS is the *real* progenitor of MessDOS v2 and above, just as CP/M was the progenitor of MessDOS v1. So why not avoid all the messy, bloated, buggy, irritatingly limited, wannabe-OSs and stick with the *real thing*. Eight (bits) is enough! Support trailing-edge technology (* we now return you to your regularly-scheduled interruptions of linux and 386bsd discussions, depending upon your newsgroup :-) *) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bruce H. McIntosh brucem@neufhou.mail.ufl.edu Systems Programmer ** University of Florida ** Division of Housing --------------------------------------------------------------------------- parental unit(Amanda Marie 1/5/94), minstrel(guitar), ferroequinologist(HO) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Peace is the name of the ideal we deduce from the fact that there have been interludes between wars." - John Christian Falkenberg