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From: sangria@inlink.com (Sang K. Choe)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux vs whatever
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 00:19:48 GMT
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On 29 Jan 1997 22:57:42 GMT, peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) wrote:

>In article <5cli0v$fmf@qnx.com>, Doug Santry <doug@qnx.com> wrote:
>> The BSD project at the CSRG is dead but BSD was *the* most influential
>> system on Unix.  You can't name a major OS that doesn't have support
>> for the socket API.
>
>Including Windows NT, I might add...

Hmmm, I may be wrong on this, but I don't think MacOS has the Berkeley
Socket APIs.

-- Sang.
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