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From: adam@veda.is (Adam David)
Subject: Re: BSD vs. LINUX
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macar@Nimitz.mcs.kent.edu (Mike Acar) writes:

>Ahh, yes... OS/9 Level II running on a Color Computer 3 w/ 512k of memory...
>More stable *preemptive* multitasking than you can find on Windows in 8 megs of
>RAM. Those were the days... :) Don't expect me to give up my 486 and go back,
>however. :)

These days, you can get it for 680x0 and 80x86 32-bit architectures. It's not
free, but then neither is every other good thing.

--
Adam David <adam@veda.is>