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From: jca@bighorn.accessnv.com (J.C. Archambeau)
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Subject: /etc/apple (was Re: Pentium Pro and FreeBSD)
Date: 31 Dec 1996 03:38:36 GMT
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Tony Porczyk (tporczyk@best.com) wrote:

: Oh, something off the subject: With the recent announcement of Apple
: going with OpenStep+MacOS, how many people are afraid it may be a
: serious threat to free unices?  I must admit that a possibility of
: having a UNIX system (unless Apple manages to castrate OpenStep) that
: runs inexpensive Mac apps natively is incredibly appealing to me.

Highly doubtful.  Citizen Gates has a better chance of wiping out the
*BSD and Linux projects than Apple does by making the Mac a commerical
Unix box.  Remember what happened to NeXT.
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