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From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux vs whatever
Date: 29 Jan 1997 22:57:42 GMT
Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI
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References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <5qC7y0gTzDLB091yn@ibm.net> <5cjrh1$gcv$1@Venus.mcs.net> <5cli0v$fmf@qnx.com>
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In article <5cli0v$fmf@qnx.com>, Doug Santry <doug@qnx.com> wrote:
> The BSD project at the CSRG is dead but BSD was *the* most influential
> system on Unix.  You can't name a major OS that doesn't have support
> for the socket API.

Including Windows NT, I might add...

-- 

             The Reverend Peter da Silva, ULC, COQO, BOFH.

                  Har du kramat din varg, idag? `-_-'