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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:2314 comp.os.linux.misc:12887 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!netcomsv!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: Impressions: FreeBSD vs Linux Message-ID: <hastyCo2r27.Js2@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <2nq530$7hh@hecate.umd.edu> <2o2gsu$pmv@cleese.apana.org.au> <2o6ral$shj@eve.adam.com.au> Date: Mon, 11 Apr 1994 03:01:18 GMT Lines: 23 In article <2o6ral$shj@eve.adam.com.au> steve@adam.com.au (Stephen White) writes: >Mark Newton (newton@cleese.apana.org.au) wrote: >: I think the rapidity with which Linux's dosemu has developed is due to >: the fact that most Linux people are DOSers who have been convered to UNIX. > >The development of dosemu is due to the work of a couple of people, with >various people testing it. > >If there were a couple of BSDers who decided to write a DOS emulator for >BSD, would most BSD people be DOSers who have been converted to Unix? >Remember that a lot of BSD people have been asking for a DOS emulator. > I am not asking for a dos emulator I just boot dos. There is very little need in my case to run dos stuff under FreeBSD. Perhaps some linux users have a *great* desire to do so :) Amancio -- FREE unix, gcc, tcp/ip, X, open-look, interviews, tcl/tk, MIME, midi, sound at freebsd.cdrom.com:/pub/FreeBSD Amancio Hasty, Consultant | Home: (415) 495-3046 | e-mail hasty@netcom.com | ftp-site depository of all my work: ahasty@cisco.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/X