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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!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!bofh.dot!arclight.uoregon.edu!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!news.redshift.com!news From: mikew@redshift.com (netwolf) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Microkernel-based Unix-DNA Freeware Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 20:29:14 GMT Organization: Redshift Online Service Lines: 28 Message-ID: <31ae04f1.6480730@news.redshift.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: red124.redshift.com X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99e/32.227 It's what the world needs now. I can see it now: I make a call on comp.os.qnx for an Internet-based Loose Group to develop a Freeware QNX-like operating system. You know, one based on a small microkernel, message passing, and virtual-computer networking. Within 72 hours, a large individual who can't make up his mind whether he wants to speak English or French is standing on my doorstep. I'm instanty regretting those posts I made to alt-current-events.clinton.whitewater. As I reach for my Glock 23, I am smashed upside the head with an ATI Ultra Pro. Soon, staring at my forehead, my friends start calling me DAC. Thank God the board didn't have any blue-wire on the bottom; I don't need accusations of sexual ambivalency. When I wake up, I find that my computers have been confiscated. All except the 3Com 3C509b Ethernet cards, which QSSL doesn't support, anyway. I recover well, but I mysteriously begin flaming anything Freeware and spending Saturday nights hanging around the Internet Cafe pimping Watcom C Compilers. Moral: don't phuque with Canadians who are trying to make a profit on a very good idea sorely in need of a Freeware Community. mike 1.45