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From: randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess)
Subject: Re: Restrictions on 'free' UNIX / 386BSD (Re: selling 386BSD)
Message-ID: <BtAA9F.5vw@chinet.chi.il.us>
Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
References: <GTFIR8A@taronga.com> <1992Aug18.155958.3671@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <DWGI541@taronga.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 13:17:39 GMT
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In article <DWGI541@taronga.com> peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>What sort of idiot applications is he running? Networking or something
>else quite unsuited to DOS?

	Lets not go TOO far here.  My apartment has a thin-net network consist-
	ing of 5 [34]86 dos machines (including a laptop), a sysvr4, BSD and a 
	novell 3.11 server.  All the dos machines have netware drivers, tcp/ip
	drivers, cd-rom drivers, doskey, smartdrv, mouse, etc, etc.
	All have over 600k free after this, and *never* crash unless the wife
	says "what will *this* do??".
	DOS is not a real OS, true, but until someone ports Wing Commander
	to BSD, I can't much do without it.

-- 
	I am created Shiva the Destroyer; Death, the shatterer of worlds!
	Who is this dog meat who stands before me now?
	That's the biz, sweetheart.
Randy Suess					 randy@chinet.chi.il.us