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From: Jamie Bowden <jamie@inna.net>
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?)
Date:  5 Apr 1997 00:06:08 EST
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On Fri, 4 Apr 1997, Goatboy wrote:

> >(so is SMP UNIX really Multix?);if you do the same for NT,you get
> >Seattle Computer's Quick and Dirty Operating System for 8088s,
> >designed to make CP/M apps portable for an 8-bit data line leading
> >into 16-bit logic.

> NT was not even remotely based on Q-DOS.

*Bzzt*  guess what Goatboy,  all that old cpm code will compile and run 
on NT today same as it did 15 years ago.  ALL the old C/PM shit is still 
in there.

Jamie Bowden

Network Administrator, TBI Ltd.