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From: Don Whiteside <dwhite@shadow.net>
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Subject: Re: BSD sluggish compared to Linux?
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 94 21:40:07 PDT
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In article <3ao31t$9fo@itu1.sun.ac.za>, <arichfld@cs.sun.ac.za> writes:

> No, sir, I am getting exactly what I wanted;  email telling me the
> exact relative merits of both OSes from both points of view.  It's the
> effects, not the causes,  that count .... try it sometime when you want
> the whole story behind something; it really works!

The fact that you're accomplishing what you set out to do doesn't make 
you less of a jerk.