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From: Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu>
Subject: Re: Interested in PowerPC for Linux / FreeBSD / NetBSD?
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 1995 23:34:43 GMT
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jjs@ix.netcom.com (Jerry Shekhel) wrote:

] No offense, but you're full of it.  If you can say with a straight face that 
] NT was designed as a single-user system, you don't know the first thing about 
] it.  Please stop talking about NT until you know a bit about it; the 
] embarrassment you save will be yours.

I have to agree with Jerry here; NT *was* designed as a multi-user
system.

It was, however, crippled in implementation.


                                        Terry Lambert
                                        terry@cs.weber.edu
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