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- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!ibmpcug!mantis!mathew
- From: mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
- Subject: Re: Apple/Novell merger discussed
- Message-ID: <mXNZVB47w165w@mantis.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 17:32:57 GMT
- References: <724526532snx@crynwr.com>
- Distribution: world
- Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.
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- nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson) writes:
- > In article <suLVVB13w165w@mantis.co.uk> mathew writes:
- > That would be interesting. We'd get to see whether the FSF would stick to
- > their professed principles and boycott DOS machines.
- >
- > Being ridiculous as usual, eh? DOS machines do more than run DOS.
- > They also run Linux very well.
-
- Sure, you can have multiple partitions. But I doubt many people will be keen
- to transfer their files and re-boot in order to run GAWK.
-
- > In fact, Linux runs a LOT faster on a
- > DOS machine than DOS does. Something about using it like a 32-bit
- > machine instead of an 8-bit machine.
-
- That's as maybe. Some people *have to* run DOS, because the software they
- want isn't available for Linux. They don't want to choose between GNU utils
- and their favourite software; they want to have both.
-
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- mathew
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