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From: dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie (David Malone)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD
Date: 31 Aug 1996 14:50:29 +0100
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
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hartzeld@cc.sdstate.edu (Dave Hartzell) writes:

>Can anyone tell me the diffrence between these three OS's?  

>If I were to need UNIX on a 486 or Pentium, which would be the best 
>choice?

FreeBSD is focused on the PC platform, so probably FreeBSD. Net and
OpenBSD aim to support many platforms.

	David.