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From: peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: BSD CD-ROM : Walnet Creek or Infomagic ?
Organization: Taronga Park BBS
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References: <3e8t0q$gnp@vishnu.jussieu.fr> <3etolp$2qr6@tiger2.ocs.lsu.edu> <D27p37.1E9@bonkers.taronga.com> <3f281t$3n4@engnews2.eng.sun.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 15:15:01 GMT
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In article <3f281t$3n4@engnews2.eng.sun.com>,
John Plocher (PADI AI-85274) <plocher@scuba.net> wrote:
>Far Left:  Hack everything to be as hardware specific as it can be.
>	   After all, "all the world is a VAX^H^H^Hx86"

This is more like where Linux is. It's certainly not the position
FreeBSD is taking. Look at all the flamage about the Linux VM system
in the Minix groups when Linux was getting started, and how the Linux
people defended it as being entirely appropriate for the 386 and they
didn't much care about anything else.