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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mira.net.au!pumpkin.pangea.ca!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!worldnet.att.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!192.220.251.22!netnews.nwnet.net!news-hub.interserv.net!news.sprynet.com!not-for-mail From: lcappite@sprynet.com (Goatboy) Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?) Date: Fri, 04 Apr 1997 20:31:46 GMT Organization: Sprynet News Service Lines: 13 Message-ID: <3346646b.68448149@news.sprynet.com> References: <332c9a76.3278270@news.adelaide.on.net> <01bc32f2$3783f300$04000001@Colin> <E79F14.n7z@forthdv.pfm-mainz.de> <332f5ffb.519605@news.sprynet.com> <5h51ma$b1u$2@kayrad.ziplink.net> <3337e3ad.1847437@news.sprynet.com> <5hbh2g$gah$1@kayrad.ziplink.net> <333990e3.2587820@news.sprynet.com> <333EE698.41C67EA6@kzin.dorm.umd.edu> <3343cbbf.1091644@news.sprynet.com> <5i1216$gc4$1@news3.realtime.net> <33457087.6003026@news.sprynet.com> <E84Kwp.8ox@nonexistent.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ad47-190.compuserve.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99g/32.339 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.os.linux:19861 comp.os.linux.misc:168263 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38567 >4 years ago(when FreeBSD started) there were no 200 MHz x86 CPUs! Actually, there were. The DEC Alphas and the MIPS processors, all of which NT can run on. >If you want to look at the UNIX family tree,you trace back to Multics, >of which Unics(as it was first spelled) was a single-processor version >(so is SMP UNIX really Multix?);if you do the same for NT,you get >Seattle Computer's Quick and Dirty Operating System for 8088s, >designed to make CP/M apps portable for an 8-bit data line leading >into 16-bit logic. NT was not even remotely based on Q-DOS.