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- From: johnsonm@lars.acc-admin.stolaf.edu (Michael K. Johnson)
- Subject: Re: Linux v. Coherent: Comments
- In-Reply-To: rick@ee.uwm.edu's message of 7 Jan 1993 13:43:14 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.165301.2889@news.stolaf.edu>
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- Organization: St. Olaf College; Northfield, MN USA
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- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 16:53:01 GMT
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- In article <1ihc1iINNh6q@uwm.edu> rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller, Linux Device Registrar) writes:
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- Y'know, I've been thinking about this... Folks are saying that the next
- release of Coherent will have *loads* of stuff it doesn't have yet:
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- 1.) Graphics support
- 2.) The GNU GCC compiler
- 3.) TCP/IP Networking
- 4.) Sockets
- 5.) X Windows
-
- That's a pretty big leap when you compare it to the improvements made from
- the last version to the present one. Where do you suppose the MWC is going
- to *get* all that code from? Are they dealing with Satan? or *worse*...
-
- Filching code from Linux and/or 386BSD to call it your own is a big no-no.
-
- Mark Williams is a pretty reputable company, and has some good
- programmers. Don't make remarks like this --- they are rather silly,
- and could be considered libelous. MWC makes a point that they develop
- all that themselves.
-
- Where do you think linux and 386BSD got the code from? *people wrote
- it* Where do you think MWC got their code? Do you think that they
- can't program?
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- The networking and sockets are the only *major* things on that list,
- and they go together. I consider MWC fully capable of doing them. I
- don't use coherent, but MWC has been around for a while, and so has
- coherent, and you are being foolish to make assumptions like this.
- Please don't poison the air like this.
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- michaelkjohnson
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