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From: cca93013@sun1.bham.ac.uk (RFW Pigott)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Linux thoroughly insulted by Infoworld!
Date: 15 Feb 1995 13:00:38 -0000
Organization: The University of Birmingham, UK
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Mandatory purchase of OS/2 ???
What am I going to do with my bucket of T805 transputers, or perhaps
my VAX will have to be upgraded(?!) to a 486... Frankly that sucks.
To be honest I figure that you are safer running Linux/FreeBSD/etc,
at least any speed probs or bugs can be fixed by yourself to your
satisfaction ! Plus upgrades & bug-fixes appear much more rapidly
and the sucker is free too !
Besides I advocate that all programmers should at least have an
inkling about how their OS actually works, it comes in handy when
you are trying to decide how to implement your code... Efficiency
suffers otherwise, as far as I see it there are a lot of apps out
there which screw the OS, the machine and the users pocket - through
forking out extra for support, upgrades and 16Megs of RAM which they
never needed...
BAN all OS's which require >= 16Meg to run,
just think no more Solaris, no more NT, no more OSF/1, no more X,
heheh.
Rupert.
--
Rupert Pigott, impoverished student at Birmingham University
(email : cca93013@sun1.bham.ac.uk)