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From: jjs@dostoevsky.ucr.edu (Joe Sloan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux thoroughly insulted by Infoworld!
Date: 24 Jan 1995 23:39:32 GMT
Organization: University of Calfornia at Riverside
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References: <950116203411@lambada> <3fmi6c$ang@galaxy.ucr.edu> <3fvqbd$6v1@nkosi.well.com> <1995Jan24.175535.27286@rosevax.rosemount.com>
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In article <1995Jan24.175535.27286@rosevax.rosemount.com>,
Grant Edwards <grante@reddwarf.rosemount.com> wrote:
>I've used quite a few different Unixes (T-nix (v7-ish), BSD,
>Coherent(v7-ish), Linux (Posix-ish), SVR4, SunOS 4 (BSD-ish), Solaris
>2.3 (sV-ish)).  If you're literate and have half a brain, there's
>nothing so idiosyncratic about Linux that you can't be up to speed
>in a day or two.

My God - another TNIX user! I used TNIX on a Tektronix 8540 
Microprocessor Development Station at Hughes Aircraft in the 80s - 
It was a nice development environment for its time, but nowhere near 
as nice - or as powerful - as linux 

jjs

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