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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!decwrl!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!destroyer!ubc-cs!unixg.ubc.ca!kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca!acs.ucalgary.ca!cpsc.ucalgary.ca!ajfcal!novatel!hpeyerl From: hpeyerl@novatel.cuc.ab.ca (Herb Peyerl) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Restrictions on 'free' UNIX / 386BSD (Re: selling 386BSD) Message-ID: <1992Aug20.140428.8394@novatel.cuc.ab.ca> Date: 20 Aug 92 14:04:28 GMT References: <1992Aug18.214121.26825@afterlife.ncsc.mil> Organization: "NovAtel Communications Ltd." Lines: 25 Philip Anglin (pjangli@afterlife.ncsc.mil) wrote: : In article <1992Aug18.155958.3671@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> gsh7w@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Hennessy) writes: : >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. ***STOP**** Please take this to alt.my.computer.is.better.than.yours.nyah.nyah.nyah ***STOP**** -- "I was early to finish | hpeyerl@novatel.cuc.ab.ca <Reply-To> | I brew | I was late to start, I | peyerlh@cuug.ab.ca | there- | might be an adult, but | #define JANITOR "Network Administrator"| fore I | I'm a minor at heart." | JANITOR, NovAtel Communications Ltd.| AM. | -- "I was early to finish | hpeyerl@novatel.cuc.ab.ca <Reply-To> | I brew | I was late to start, I | peyerlh@cuug.ab.ca | there- | might be an adult, but | #define JANITOR "Network Administrator"| fore I | I'm a minor at heart." | JANITOR, NovAtel Communications Ltd.| AM. |