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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:4493 comp.os.linux.misc:32094 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk!warwick!yama.mcc.ac.uk!cs.man.ac.uk!fellowsd From: fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk (Donal K. Fellows) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: BSD vs. LINUX Date: 20 Dec 1994 11:01:15 GMT Organization: Dept of Computer Science, University of Manchester, U.K. Lines: 29 Message-ID: <3d6dhr$qkh@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> References: <3cfsi7$eab@nkosi.well.com> <3cikvv$2lq@mail.fwi.uva.nl> <3cktrh$8i4@kubds1.kub.nl> <D0suzE.B4F@bocanews.bocaraton.ibm.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: r8h.cs.man.ac.uk NNTP-Posting-User: 8028 In article <D0suzE.B4F@bocanews.bocaraton.ibm.com>, <hartnupj@vnet.ibm.com> wrote: >In <3cktrh$8i4@kubds1.kub.nl>, paai@kub.nl (J.J. Paijmans) writes: >>In article <3cikvv$2lq@mail.fwi.uva.nl> >>vdlinden@fwi.uva.nl (Frank van der Linden) writes: >>> >>>About Linux making Unix popular with the crowd: they certainly have done >>>that. "Linux is to the Unix community what AOL is to the Internet". Whether >> >>(Frank, what in gods name is AOL?) >> > >America Online -- but the analogy is poor - you have to pay for AOL! > Hmm. Surely a better quote would be: ``Windoze NT is to the Unix community what Compuserve is to the Internet'' :) Donal. -- Donal K. Fellows, A.K.A. ``I'll get a life when I can find the FTP site...'' Dept. of Computer Science, 6, Randall Place, Heaton, University of Manchester Bradford, BD9 4AE U.K. Tel: ++44-161-275-6137 U.K. Tel: ++44-1274-545252 -- Please do not quote this .signature, it isn't worth it! :)