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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 15:18:48 -0700
Organization: Me
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Martin Ibert wrote:
] Like it or not, Windows 95 is a "real" operating system, and
] Windows NT is even a reasonable good one.
Spoken like someone who has never disassembled VMM and VCACHE
with WINICE. 8-) 8-).
Windows95 is largely DOS. It couldn't run DOS code otherwise
(hint: structure alignment).
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.