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From: peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Interested in PowerPC for Linux / FreeBSD / NetBSD?
Followup-To: alt.religion.computers
Organization: Taronga Park BBS
Message-ID: <D163K2.CKJ@bonkers.taronga.com>
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Date: Wed, 21 Dec 1994 15:40:50 GMT
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In article <3d7lt7$c0f@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu>,
Doug  Dejulio <ddj+@pitt.edu> wrote:
>Is the problem that the NFS implementation doesn't come from
>Microsoft?  (I think we got it from Intergraph.)

The problem is the NT people complain about the stuff you have to add to UNIX
to make it do what *they* want to do, even though it's free, then talk about
NT as if the stuff we'd need to add to do what we want it to do wasn't at
least as hairy to add and costs money.