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From: rick@vox.trystero.com (Richard E. Nickle)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: BSD vs. LINUX
Date: 8 Jan 1995 16:01:08 GMT
Organization: The Trystero System
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References: <KSTAILEY.94Dec8195010@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov> <D1B81t.24H@bonkers.taronga.com> <D1qzJ6.206@indirect.com> <3eor76$1hm@nntp1.u.washington.edu>
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In article <3eor76$1hm@nntp1.u.washington.edu>,
Tim Smith <tzs@u.washington.edu> wrote:
|In article <D1qzJ6.206@indirect.com>, Barnacle Wes <wes@indirect.com> wrote:
|>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?  ;^)
|
|A Unix port to the 386 architecture would be nice.  (I mean real Unix, not
|these new fanlged bloated things like System V, BSD, or Linux.  It's time
|for a port of V7).

Venix and the first Coherent were awfully close to V7.

>--Tim Smith


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