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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:252 comp.os.linux:36538 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!uuneo!sugar!peter From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: Linux/386bsd on a diskless workstation Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900 Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1993 23:56:15 GMT Message-ID: <C67x5s.J7C@sugar.neosoft.com> References: <1993Apr22.214040.27674@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <C5zLuL.KBC@sugar.neosoft.com> <1993Apr28.020740.27332@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Lines: 18 In article <1993Apr28.020740.27332@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes: > This is *very* different from the suggestion that (to put it bluntly) some > sort of half-assed support should be rigged to allow something like a > Diamond Speedstar to work without the manufacturer having to stoop to > acknowledging the existance of something other than DOS. But it doesn't bother you to set up some half-assed support to allow Novell to ignore anything but DOS... and now Unixware? > The reason behind propritary interfaces in the DOS market is to allow a > company to compete in a given market with an inferior product... If it's an inferior product why are people buying it? -- Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>. `-_-' Har du kramat din varg idag? 'U` "Det er min ledsager, det er ikke drikkepenge."