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From: peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Linux thoroughly insulted by Infoworld!
Organization: Taronga Park BBS
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References: <950116203411@lambada> <3g3pbt$13a@nkosi.well.com> <D30Kyy.695@bonkers.taronga.com> <NILS.95Jan26112736@pathfinder.dartmouth.edu>
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 1995 01:43:49 GMT
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In article <NILS.95Jan26112736@pathfinder.dartmouth.edu>,
 <nils@cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote:
>peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>> All the classes do, most of the time, is give people an excuse to spend that
>> week messing around with the hardware. There are a few exceptions, but how
>> often do you get a course in TCP/IP programming from Stevens or Sendmail
>> from Allman?

>Just about every USENIX.

<grin>

Exactly. I don't think those are the courses these folks pushing commercial
UNIX are thinking of.

(Hey, I talked to Linus at the last Usenix I went to. Does that count?)