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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!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!cssun.mathcs.emory.edu!gatech!concert!news-server.ncren.net!taco.cc.ncsu.edu!crazytrain.eos.ncsu.edu!not-for-mail 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) Followup-To: 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 Date: 24 Apr 1996 23:22:00 GMT Organization: The House of RetroComputing Lines: 25 Message-ID: <4lmd2o$mt0@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> References: <4ki055$60l@Radon.Stanford.EDU> <DpsKyx.1Jo@catzen.gun.de> <tporczykDptpAL.8uG@netcom.com> <4l0fv9$1bfs@news.missouri.edu> <4l2u61$fdg@solaria.cc.gatech.edu> <4l8o73$i28@news.missouri.edu> <4laudl$q55@news.duke.edu> <317CA542.F15E726@gramercy.ios.com> <4lk2p7$bc1@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> <317E7659.555B0E39@lambert.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: crazytrain.eos.ncsu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:22399 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:852 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3532 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3389 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:18201 comp.os.linux.advocacy:47190 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. -- XCOMM Kevin P. Neal, Sophomore, Comp. Sci. \ kpneal@interpath.com XCOMM Frue, Secret Agent of Smerp (shh!) \ kpneal@eos.ncsu.edu XCOMM Visit the House of RetroComputing at / Perm. Email: XCOMM http://www4.ncsu.edu/~kpneal/www/ / kevinneal@bix.com