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From: maericks@netcom.com (Mark Erickson)
Subject: Re: BSD vs. LINUX
Message-ID: <maericksD0px23.G98@netcom.com>
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References: <KSTAILEY.94Dec8195010@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov> <NELSON.94Dec12103328@crynwr.crynwr.com> <3cht7r$ajk@solaris.cc.vt.edu>
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 1994 21:58:51 GMT
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In article <3cht7r$ajk@solaris.cc.vt.edu>,
Jon 'Mr. Outrageous' Lido <jlido@cray-ymp.acm.stuorg.vt.edu> wrote:
>nelson@crynwr.crynwr.com (Russell Nelson) wrote:
>>You goober!  LINUX has brought DOOM to UN*X!  What more could you
>>possibly want?
>
>So Doom is part of Linux now?  Come on!  Linux had nothing to do with
>it.  There's nothing special about Linux that makes Doom run on it,
>except some guy at iD thought it would be cool to port it to his
>Linux box.  

The fact that some guy at a commercial mass-production software house
has a Linux box and did the port at all is a plus in my book....

--Mark (maericks@netcom.com)