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From: "Thumper!" <thumper@vfr.interceptor.com>
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 23:50:44 -0700
Organization: Interceptor Systems
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Joshy wrote:
> Free Unix has these features
>
> A fast filesystem
> A flat memory model with a good virtual memory system
> true 32bit multitasking
> fantastic networking support
> lots of development utilites
> a completely crash proof kernel
> a future on SMP motherboards
Some things it doesn't have
journaled/logged file system
built-in RAID support
clustering support (or an upgrade path to)
legacy network (such as VINES) support
Steve
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