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From: curt@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: DEBATE:  BSD vs. Linux
Date: 1 Sep 1995 04:35:32 GMT
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In article <425s8h$ah1@beowulf.gsfc.nasa.gov>,
Jason Garman <garman@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote:

>Perhaps you've never heard of Sparc/Linux or Alpha/Linux then :-)
>Both are actively being worked on, and Alpha/Linux is slowly nearing
>an end-user release...

Yes, but he mentioned *Sun*, not just Sparc. NetBSD runs on advanced
Sun workstations like the Sun 3.  I can't take Linux seriously
until it does likewise.

cjs
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