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From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: The Future of FreeBSD...
Message-ID: <id.0GYL1.U_3@nmti.com>
Sender: peter@nmti.com (peter da silva)
Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI
References: <DC6vJ3.L53@news.central.com> <3v01bh$q7q@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1995 15:45:38 GMT
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In article <3v01bh$q7q@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>,
Jon Jenkins  <jenkinsj@ozy.dec.com> wrote:
> Im sure Ken Thompson and the other UNIX designers at
> AT&T Bell Labs (a very commercial organisation)

AT&T is a commercial organization. Bell Labs was a research facility. It
probably still is: does Plan 9 look commercial to you? Not NEARLY glitzy
enough. No chrome at all...

> This is patently untrue. NT is based on the mach kernel

Nope. NT is not based on Mach.
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