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From: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen)
Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX)
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References: <NELSON.96Apr15010553@ns.crynwr.com> <yfgbuktfn1w.fsf@time.cdrom.com> <4l89ov$g5i@river.biddeford.com> <4lr9al$jea@felix.cc.gatech.edu> <31831544.7E85@vfr.interceptor.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 10:14:04 GMT
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In <31831544.7E85@vfr.interceptor.com> "Thumper!" <thumper@vfr.interceptor.com> writes:

>Some things it doesn't have

>	  legacy network (such as VINES) support

But how about NFS, SMB, Netware?  Isn't that enough?
(not if your company happens to have a VINES network, of course...)

Rob
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