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From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD
Date: 11 Feb 1997 10:02:16 GMT
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Alair Pereira do Lago <alair@ime.usp.br> wrote:

>  If the other case had
> happened, perhaps I would be using FreeBSD now.  (Perhaps not since my disks
> always were IDE.)

Well, but that's only a performance problem.  Just to prevent
miscomprehension: FreeBSD runs of course fine on IDE drives, too.

-- 
J"org Wunsch					       Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de       http://www.interface-business.de/~j