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Xref: sserve comp.os.minix:22443 comp.os.386bsd.misc:576 comp.os.386bsd.questions:3522 comp.os.linux:46378 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!emory!ogicse!netnews.nwnet.net!news.u.washington.edu!stein2.u.washington.edu!tzs From: tzs@stein2.u.washington.edu (Tim Smith) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.linux Subject: Re: Choosing a Unix like OS for a pc (plan 9 compilation time) Message-ID: <217pm5$s6v@news.u.washington.edu> Date: 4 Jul 93 23:38:45 GMT Article-I.D.: news.217pm5$s6v References: <741438841.9926@minster.york.ac.uk> <20sscl$brc@usenet.mcs.kent.edu> <21250i$lnm@umd5.umd.edu> Organization: University of Washington School of Law, Class of '95 Lines: 13 NNTP-Posting-Host: stein2.u.washington.edu mark@elea.umd.edu (Mark Sienkiewicz) writes: >>So *my* wish (requirement) list for a 32-bit OS goes like this: ... >You don't want much. Seriously. I want all these things too: ... >11. Exchanges mail and news over UUCP. Why do you want mail and news in the OS rather than as applications? -- "Pope moved that we strike from the State's brief and appendix a selection from the Year Book of 1484 written in Medieval Latin and references thereto. The State provided no translation and conceded a total lack of knowledge of what it meant. The motion is granted" 396 A.2d 1054 --Tim Smith