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- Path: grafix.xs4all.nl!rdingem
- Date: Mon, 08 Apr 96 00:24:43 GMT+1
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
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- Subject: Re: Are Amiga users steadily becoming
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- From: rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl (Ruud Dingemans)
- Message-ID: <rdingem.4r4f@grafix.xs4all.nl>
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- In a message of 05 Apr 96 Dennis Lee Bieber wrote to All:
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- DLB> {snip}
- >> > If AT goes under, will we have to get the > source code for the OS and
- >> make it into the next Linux? >
-
- >> Linux and UNIX in general are the other nice-to-program OS... so why not
- >> ? :)
-
- DLB> If we have to go the Linux route, we /will not/ have the
- DLB> source code. Linux started life (I've read) as Minix (I have the
-
- Bit of a moot point, since UAE is already up and running. I've
- even seen Amiga demo's run on it (on a PC).
-
- Apart from that, Minix has been (re)released as freeware, but started
- out as a research object on "how to design an OS" (AFAIK).
-
- Regards, Ruud
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