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From: wes@indirect.com (Barnacle Wes)
Subject: Re: BSD vs. LINUX
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Date: Sun, 1 Jan 1995 22:23:30 GMT
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Peter da Silva (peter@bonkers.taronga.com) wrote:
: In article <D18449.Kvs@park.uvsc.edu>,
: Terry Lambert  <terry@cs.weber.edu> wrote:
: >VMS had installed images early on, but I don't think it was nearly
: >that early.

: RSX-11 uses loadable modules for things like the file system.

: It was also the *first* system that Dave Cutler worked on, and personally
: I prefer it to either of the later ones.

Let's port RSX to the PC/386 architecture!  It may sound silly, but I
bet it would be *screaming* fast.  Well, maybe we should just stick to 
RT-11, but then that would be CPM-86, wouldn't it?  ;^)

	Wes Peters