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From: cjs@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD
Date: 11 Feb 1997 02:27:08 -0800
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In article <5dncoa$op@josie.abo.fi>, Mats Andtbacka <mandtbac@abo.fi> wrote:

>>So in other words, you don't then recommend an `OS' to people, but
>>an `OS with an associated package of utilities.'
>
>i don't recommend anything even that simple. the conventional wisdom
>has been, and remains, that one state clearly what one wants to
>accomplish - what work one wishes to do....

Well, spend a bit of time selling systems and programming, and
you'll discover that there's really no hope, in most cases, of
someone stating clearly what they want to accomplish or do.

Regardless, I'd be curious as to why you think that the term `OS'
should mean the same as the term `kernel,' and that there should
be no easy term for a kernel along with the standard package of
utilities that is generally expected to come with it.

cjs
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