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From: kpneal@eos.ncsu.edu (Kevin P. Neal)
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)
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Date: 24 Apr 1996 23:22:00 GMT
Organization: The House of RetroComputing
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Terry Lambert (terry@lambert.org) wrote:
: Kevin P. Neal wrote:
: ] 
: ] Bryan Seigneur (freds@gramercy.ios.com) wrote:
: ] : You know of course that there is Matlab for Linux (ergo,
: ] : probably for *BSD, too).
: ] 
: ] Sorry, this does not follow. Just because there is a Linux
: ] version DOES NOT mean there is a *BSD version.
: 
: BSD has Linux ABI compatability.
: 
: Because there is a Linux DOOM, there is a BSD DOOM.
: Because there is a Linux QUAKE, there is a BSD QUAKE.
: Because there is a Linux Mathematica, there is a BSD Mathematica.
: Because there is a Linux Executor, there is a BSD Executor.
: 

Um, ok, looking at it that way. I assumed he meant *native* BSD
apps.
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