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- From: casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik)
- Subject: Re: avoiding Solaris
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.223023.667@fwi.uva.nl>
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 22:30:23 GMT
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- rwa@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca (Ross Alexander) writes:
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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.
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- >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.
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- Which BSD administrative model? I didn't know one existed.
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- Casper
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