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From: abs@cs.sun.ac.za (Andre Skarzynski)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: BSD sluggish compared to Linux?
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Date: 21 Nov 1994 09:00:27 GMT
Organization: University of Stellenbosch
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Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@violet.berkeley.edu) wrote:
: In article <3ao31t$9fo@itu1.sun.ac.za>,
: Antony Richfield <arichfld@cs.sun.ac.za> wrote:
: >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!

: How nice, another "I don't give a fuck just so long as I get what *I*
: want" sociopath on the net..  The thought of Antony and 10,000,000
: other AOL clones infesting the net with these sorts of "poke it and see
: how it reacts" sorts of amateur league self-serving science makes me think
: that my time on USENET, at least, is coming to a rather imminent close.
: It's become a cesspool.


Hear, Hear.

I am also embarrassed that he comes form my institution, and had he really 
wanted to find out, we have NetBSD, FreeBSD and Linux available here.

He also happens to be a user on the UNIX machines I administer...

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Andre B. Skarzynski  -- Information Technology, University of Stellenbosch --
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