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From: tomh@metrics.com (Tom Haapanen)
Subject: Re: ISP hardware/software choices (performance comparison)
Organization: Software Metrics Inc.
Message-ID: <DL7yHA.K98@metrics.com>
References: <4cmopu$d35@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <4crliv$smk@olympus.nwnet.net> <4cuums$bi1@helena.MT.net> <30F8483A.7187@commerce.uq.edu.au>
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 10:58:21 GMT
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David Bellamy <bellamy@commerce.uq.edu.au> writes:
> BSD derived systems are pretty well dead (yes I'm sure there is an
> exception, somewhere) but most mainstream suppliers now are using SVR4
> derived systems.

You just "forgot" about BSDI, FreeBSD and NetBSD, didn't you?  They still
look amazingly slive to me ...

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