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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!zombie.ncsc.mil!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!zib-berlin.de!unlisys!desert!heaven7.snafu.de!usenet From: martini@heaven7.snafu.de (Martin Ibert) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX) Date: 27 Apr 1996 12:25:11 +0200 Organization: The Seventh Heaven, Berlin, Germany Lines: 17 Sender: martini@cumulus.sky.bln.sub.org Message-ID: <ufafzyge0o.fsf@cumulus.sky.bln.sub.org> References: <4ki055$60l@Radon.Stanford.EDU> <4lfm6m$d2c@rigel.tm.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de> <4lftn3$olb@solaria.cc.gatech.edu> <317C8F0F.307E@curtin.edu.au> <4lgo4c$6fa@solaria.cc.gatech.edu> <317E07F1.441D@curtin.edu.au> <317DAA16.42C86E59@lambert.org> <4lqpu1$j7q@news.missouri.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: cumulus.sky.bln.sub.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-reply-to: rhys@vortex.cc.missouri.edu's message of 26 Apr 1996 15:25:53 GMT X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.1 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:22539 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:875 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3571 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3428 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:18344 comp.os.linux.advocacy:47384 In article <4lqpu1$j7q@news.missouri.edu> rhys@vortex.cc.missouri.edu (Justin "Rhys Thuryn" McNutt) writes: : If Microsoft goes to hell, : DOS and Windows will (slowly) fade away, or be picked up by another : company who will hopefully turn them into real OSs. DOS and Windows (16 bit, that is) are already going, and fast. Like it or not, Windows 95 is a "real" operating system, and Windows NT is even a reasonable good one. It has far less sex appeal, that is for sure, though. -- __ | Martin Ibert, Fürstenweg 11, D-13589 Berlin-Spandau, Germany, EU ( )__ | martini@heaven7.snafu.de, Fon: +493037595100, Fax: +493037595101 ( )_ |----------------------------------------------------------------- (_________) | All that we see or seem/is but a dream within a dream. -- E.A.P. PGP key and Geek code available on my home page <http://www.snafu.de/~martini/>