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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.uoknor.edu!news.nodak.edu!netnews1.nwnet.net!news.u.washington.edu!uw-beaver!uhog.mit.edu!news.mathworks.com!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.missouri.edu!vortex.cc.missouri.edu!rhys From: rhys@vortex.cc.missouri.edu (Justin "Rhys Thuryn" McNutt) 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) Followup-To: 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 Date: 1 May 1996 18:58:44 GMT Organization: University of Missouri - Columbia Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4m8c94$1g5u@news.missouri.edu> References: <NELSON.96Apr15010553@ns.crynwr.com> <yfgbuktfn1w.fsf@time.cdrom.com> <4l89ov$g5i@river.biddeford.com> <4lr9al$jea@felix.cc.gatech.edu> <31831544.7E85@vfr.interceptor.com> <DqMCFH.E5E@pe1chl.ampr.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: vortex.cc.missouri.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:22732 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:891 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3597 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3453 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:18492 comp.os.linux.advocacy:47617 Rob Janssen (rob@pe1chl.ampr.org) wrote: : 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...) Besides, what's TCP/IP and UDP? Chopped liver? You don't have to have connection to "the" Internet to use a TCP/IP network. -------- If you can lead it to water and force it to drink, it isn't a horse. Got a Linux problem? Or can you help others solve them? Visit the Linux Common Problems page at http://vortex.cc.missouri.edu/~rhys/linux.html rhys@vortex.cc.missouri.edu