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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!pravda.aa.msen.com!news1.best.com!news.aimnet.com!netserv.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!news From: "Mr. Wizard" <madscientist@dark.mountain.stronghold> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX) Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 16:28:28 -0500 Organization: alt.destroy.the.earth Lines: 29 Message-ID: <316ECAFC.506FBFB5@dark.mountain.stronghold> References: <4ki055$60l@Radon.Stanford.EDU> <jdd.829261293@cdf.toronto.edu> <tporczykDpqKHL.7vG@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: slip1-34.acs.ohio-state.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; Linux 1.2.13 i586) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:21310 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:574 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3170 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2982 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:17269 comp.os.linux.advocacy:45325 Tony Porczyk wrote: > > jdd@cdf.toronto.edu (John DiMarco) writes: > > > Perhaps it is time for a free Unix variant to emerge that can serve as > > a simple, relatively small, reliable, and straightforward platform for > > running applications. > > What applications? The applications that you run on your Unix machine. > > > Windows NT has too heavy a footprint (and price) for the desktop. > > Actually, Windows NT workstation is only $295. > Oh my Gosh, *only* 300 bucks.... talk about a deal.... <sarcasm> -- /-\_/-\_/-\_/-\_/-\_/-\_/-\_/-\_/-\_/-\_/-\_/-\_/-\_/-\_/-\_/-\_/-\_/-\_/-\ | | | |--- | \ / | ___ | | \ / |--- ___ | | |- | \ / | /___ | | \ / |- /___ | | |--- |___ \/ | ___\ |___ | \/ |--- ___\ | | | \-/~\-/~\-/~\-/~\-/~\-/~\-/~\-/~\-/~\-/~\-/~\-/~\-/~\-/~\-/~\-/~\-/~\-/~\-/