*BSD News Article 68048


Return to BSD News archive

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!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!news.artisoft.com!usenet
From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: The PC Mac Holy war (now returns to FreeBSD)
Date: Wed, 08 May 1996 20:40:11 -0700
Organization: Me
Lines: 28
Message-ID: <3191691B.76B9234D@lambert.org>
References: <2283b52b.411d@slip106.termserv.siu.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Host: hecate.artisoft.com
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (X11; I; Linux 1.1.76 i486)

Jim Dutton wrote:
] 
] Hi Hellraiser, on May 06 you wrote:
] > How can you say MACs are better.. MAC OS doesn't even have
] > preemptive

[ ... ]

] Uh - hem! Well, let's comsider the (Commodore) Amiga which has HAD
] preemptive multitasking since, what - 1985 ??? (Oh, and still does)

[ ... ]

] Personally, I like my Sun (Sparc-5) workstation at work a WHOLE lot

[ ... ]

You probably meant to post this useless flamewar on the news group
comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc.  8-).

Not that it would be any more useful over there.  8-).


                                        Terry Lambert
                                        terry@lambert.org
---
Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.