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From: ralsina@ultra7.unl.edu.ar (Roberto Alsina)
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?)
Date: 4 Apr 1997 14:29:36 GMT
Organization: Universidad Nacional de San Luis - Argentina
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In article <33457087.6003026@news.sprynet.com>, Goatboy wrote:
[snippety]
>
>>Before we leave the subject of "making computing easier"--can we say
>>"Bob"? Or maybe "Plug and play"?
>
>Bob did suck. PnP doesn't. I have a 4 year old IBM PS/1 486, and win
>recognized all my devices and I haven't had to deal with any hardware
>probs yet.
PnP works great... when it works. A couple of days ago, I dual booted to '95
for the first time in a month and... it started saying things like
Detected new hardware: 101 keys PC keyboard
Detected new hardware: 387 Numeric coprocessor (I have an AMD 586!?!)
Detected new hardware: PC BIOS
Detected new hardware: PS/2 Mouse (I don't have anything like that)
It kept doing that, without any prompt whatsoever, for about 20 min, and at
the end... I HAD TWO COPIES OF ALL MY DEVICES, of course one didn't work :-)
>
>>Sheesh, give me a break from the "Goatboys" of the world who haven't
>>been around long enough to support their theories...and who buy into
>>Microsoft's BS about how great they are.
>
>I don't need to be around as long as you to know that an OS designed
>25 years ago on computers with less than 64K RAM is easier to use than
>one that was made on computers running at 200MHz and with 64MB RAM 4
>years ago (like NT).
So you are saying that Unix is easier than NT?
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