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From: paul@pp2.smc.south.telia.se (Paul Pries)
Subject: Re: How UTTERLY Amazing! (Was Re: FreeBSD vs NetBSD)
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chrisb@stork.cssc-syd.tansu.com.au (Chris Bitmead) writes:
: In article <jmonroyCxG197.MqI@netcom.com> jmonroy@netcom.com (Jesus Monroy Jr) writes:

[ A lot of stuff nuked, both good and baaaaad...]

: 
: >	I've spoken to many people on this and they feel
: >	that Chicago or Mach or maybe OS/2 might offer
: >	better resources to applications programmers.
: >	Hence, the feeling that *BSD might be on it's 
: >	death bed.  Certainly, the lack of interest by
: >	programmers in general, especially when compared 
: >	to other OSs as a whole, tends to prove my point.
: 
: Ok, let's rename the FreeBSD team to the BSD Chicago 95 team and the
: NetBSD Team to the OS BSD/2 team.

And what about the vapourous 386BSD-1.0? Shouldn't that also be renamed?
If we follow the analogy, wouldn't it be called "BSD DOS 1.0" ? ;-)

As the man syes, I couldn't resist...

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Paul Pries
paul@pp2.smc.south.telia.se