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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!olivea!decwrl!mips!darwin.sura.net!dtix!mimsy!afterlife!pjangli From: pjangli@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Philip Anglin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Restrictions on 'free' UNIX / 386BSD (Re: selling 386BSD) Message-ID: <1992Aug18.214121.26825@afterlife.ncsc.mil> Date: 18 Aug 92 21:41:21 GMT References: <PHR.92Aug17110648@soda.berkeley.edu> <GTFIR8A@taronga.com> <1992Aug18.155958.3671@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Organization: The Great Beyond Lines: 21 In article <1992Aug18.155958.3671@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> gsh7w@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Hennessy) writes: >In article <GTFIR8A@taronga.com> peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >#And while it's [MSDOS] a screaming horror from >#the sewers of hell, it *does* run out of the box without any diddling, and >#has a zillion applications for it. > >Then how come every time my brother wants to install a new program, I >have to use EDLIN to edit the config.sys file on his pc? > And how come I have to wrestle with add-on memory managers to use anything beyond 640K? How come I have to severely limit the number of network drivers, device drivers, tsr's, etc, that I have loaded, lest I run out of memory? I've done a heck of a lot more "diddling" with my PC than I have with my SparcStation. At least Unix uses all its available memory right out of the box. -- /*************** pjangli@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Philip J. Anglin) **************/ /* Disclaimer: My employer doesn't speak for me, and I don't speak for them. */ /* Views expressed are mine alone... Boy, are they ever! ;-) */ /* Cute Quote: "Intel: Putting the 'backward' in 'backward compatibility'." */