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Xref: sserve comp.sys.powerpc:30809 comp.sys.intel:27326 comp.os.misc:3616 comp.unix.bsd:15766 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:7926 comp.unix.sys5.r4:8968 comp.unix.misc:15327 comp.os.linux.development:21851 comp.os.linux.misc:32514 comp.os.linux.misc:32515 comp.os.386bsd.development:2934 comp.os.386bsd.misc:4588 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bruce.cs.monash.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!netnews.upenn.edu!jake.esu.edu!s30401.esu.edu!not-for-mail From: kender@esu.edu (Daniel Garcia) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.intel,comp.os.misc,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.sys5.r4,comp.unix.misc,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Interested in PowerPC for Linux / FreeBSD / NetBSD? Date: 23 Dec 1994 04:11:33 -0500 Organization: East Stroudsburg University Lines: 14 Message-ID: <3de485$s47@s30401.esu.edu> References: <3cilp3$143@news-2.csn.net> <3d6o4n$k2q@hearst.cac.psu.edu> <3dcv0m$cbp@fnnews.fnal.gov> <3dd6rn$e1a@galaxy.ucr.edu> Reply-To: kender@esu.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: s30401.esu.edu Slaving away in a dark room, jjs@dostoevsky.ucr.edu (Joe Sloan) produced: >In article <3dcv0m$cbp@fnnews.fnal.gov>, <morphis@fnalv1.fnal.gov> wrote: >>And if you want a solid operating system, buy VMS to run on it, best bets are >>TGV's Multinet for TCPIP software and DEC's Pathworks or some 3rd parties >>software to more easily serve all the DOS machines. >It seems that NT is basically a single-user rehash of VMS anyway, According to someone I know at DEC, at least one person on the WinNT design team (if not more) was among the origional designers of the VMS OS, so, I don't think it's all that surprising to find some VMSisms in this case :) D