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From: jjs@dostoevsky.ucr.edu (Joe Sloan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: BSD vs. LINUX
Date: 20 Dec 1994 20:45:11 GMT
Organization: University of Calfornia at Riverside
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References: <3cfsi7$eab@nkosi.well.com> <3cktrh$8i4@kubds1.kub.nl> <D0suzE.B4F@bocanews.bocaraton.ibm.com> <3d6dhr$qkh@m1.cs.man.ac.uk>
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In article <3d6dhr$qkh@m1.cs.man.ac.uk>,
Donal K. Fellows <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk> wrote:
>In article <D0suzE.B4F@bocanews.bocaraton.ibm.com>,
> <hartnupj@vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>>In <3cktrh$8i4@kubds1.kub.nl>, paai@kub.nl (J.J. Paijmans) writes:
>
>Hmm. Surely a better quote would be:
>
>``Windoze NT is to the Unix community what Compuserve is to the Internet'' 

At last someone has got it right! The saying passes the test.
all the subtle analogies hold up well under intense scrutiny - 
the earlier quote equating aol and linux just didn't make any sense...

--
 jjs@wintermute.ucr.edu            / You can't figure out how to
 A linux machine! because a 486    / ACCELERATE your Windoze NT box?
 is a terrible thing to waste!     / -9.8 m/s^2 works quite well!!!