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From: geoff@world.std.com (Geoff Collyer)
Subject: Re: [386BSD] Problems installing cnews/nn
Message-ID: <ByuEI8.G67@world.std.com>
Organization: The World @ Software Tool & Die
References: <1992Nov27.153032.10611@uropax.contrib.de>
	<1fav2bINN2ie@tricky.wft.stack.urc.tue.nl> <ByI76y.75o@world.std.com>
	<VIXIE.92Nov30104256@cognition.pa.dec.com> <ByK57p.3M6@world.std.com>
	<VIXIE.92Dec4134323@cognition.pa.dec.com> <Byrvwu.155@world.std.com>
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Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1992 14:49:20 GMT
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Paul A Vixie:
> The application that wins is the one that works best, regardless of the
> fact that the reason it works best is because the operating system is
> huge and bloated and complicated and slow.

Whatever turns your crank, man.  Just don't try to claim that said
``operating system'' is Unix.
-- 
Geoff Collyer				world!geoff, world.std.com!geoff

``People don't need to read the standards'' - ISO computer group head