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- From: rwa@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca (Ross Alexander)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: avoiding Solaris
- Message-ID: <rwa.722545645@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 19:07:25 GMT
- References: <1992Nov19.130649.8419@ra.msstate.edu> <1992Nov19.142814.19110@penny.cs.fredonia.edu> <DSCHIEB.92Nov19120619@muse.cv.nrao.edu> <1992Nov20.123416.13394@lokkur.dexter.mi.us> <1992Nov20.140729.24630@fwi.uva.nl>
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- casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik) writes:
- > > [re: BSDi for Sparc]
- >And the other question: on which Sun hardware will it run? What
- >periferals will it support? I expect that there will be much
- >more software for Solaris 2.x than BSDI.
- >I expect that BSDI for SPARCs will be limited to OS classes,
- >OS research projects and home use.
-
- I expect that use of BSDi for Sparc will be restricted to experienced
- people who like the BSD Un*x semantics and admistrative model better
- than the SysVr4 semantics and admin model. This is hardly, IMHO, a
- restriction.
-
- regards,
- Ross
-
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- Ross Alexander rwa@cs.athabascau.ca (403) 675 6311 ve6pdq@nebulus.ampr.ab.ca
-
- "One way of writing a book by a committee is to restrict its contents to the
- intersection of the various opinions; it is a technique that tends to lead to
- short texts of high quality, and has the advantage that in the case of a
- sufficiently diverse committee, it leads to no text at all." E. W. Dijkstra
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