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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!chi-news.cic.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!not-for-mail From: j@interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Advice on Internet gateway. Date: 6 Nov 1995 11:42:44 +0100 Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <47kor4$dtm@ida.interface-business.de> References: <713503807wnr@prodata.demon.co.uk> <479onf$688@news.aloha.com> <47co37$ke5@ida.interface-business.de> <47dg73$1j4@mark.ucdavis.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de Gregory Shenaut <fzshenau@boris.ucdavis.edu> wrote: >I think that there are other expenses beyond the purchase price of the OS >to consider, especially when the purchase price is fairly low. Since >in most cases you have to purchase a US$35 or so CDROM to get NetBSD/FreeBSD, >then it would be cheaper still to write your own OS. But i don't think that this will be comparable to BSD/OS, NetBSD, or FreeBSD in any way then, even if you've got a whole lifetime to burn writing it. Your argument is suggesting that NetBSD/FreeBSD were *way* inferior to BSD/OS. I'm not going to argue further here, since it's going to be religious. ;) -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de [private: http://www.sax.de/~joerg/]