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From: les@MCS.COM (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD
Date: 10 Dec 1995 14:38:11 -0600
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In article <4abkj2$pqr@park.uvsc.edu>,
Terry Lambert  <terry@lambert.org> wrote:
>gt1355b@acmey.gatech.edu (Chris) wrote:
>]
>] Terry Lambert (terry@lambert.org) wrote:
>] : I'd like to question this premise.  UnixWare has a larger user
>] : base than Linux, yet UnixWare doesn't support QIC-40/80 drives.
>] 
>] How do you know that UnixWare has a larger userbase? ;-)
>
>There are more commercial products for it that run without
>ABI emulation?

That just means that some marketing managers decided that Unixware
users part with their money faster than Linux users.

Les Mikesell
  les@mcs.com