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From: Ragnar <bowden@cs.odu.edu>
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Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1995 12:51:39 -0500 (EST)
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On 12 Dec 1995, Michael L. VanLoon wrote:

> real thing even worse.  Coherent ran on a 286, also.  You could run a
> stripped-down version of vi, and a really simple compiler.
> 
> However, I suspect he wanted something you could actually do something
> useful on.
> 
> Forget it on a 286.

Well, it will still run 6+ year old games okay.  It's the only machine I 
have that will run deathtrack at a playable speed.  I would have liked to 
have put some sort of UN*X flavor on it, but I guess I will just keep DOS 
there.

Jamie

I spent yesterday thinking about the tomorrow that is today.