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From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Subject: Re: Coexisting on the PC
Message-ID: <CLzu0M.J9s@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh
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Date: Tue, 1 Mar 1994 16:05:10 GMT
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In article <CLz6un.A9G@rex.uokhsc.edu> benjamin-goldsteen@uokhsc.edu writes:
>    I have a proposition: I think the devices for 386BSD should renamed
>to better conform to the PC.

I disagree.  To many of us, consistency with MSDOS is worthless.  It's
consistency with the rest of BSD that matters.

-- Richard
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Richard Tobin, HCRC, Edinburgh University                 R.Tobin@ed.ac.uk

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