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- From: witr@rwwa.COM (Robert Withrow)
- Subject: Re: 386 BSD
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.152045.9201@rwwa.COM>
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- References: <1993Jan6.085905.25749@klaava.Helsinki.FI> <1if32hINNghk@menudo.uh.edu> <1993Jan7.191406.25765@klaava.Helsinki.FI> <1993Jan7.205455.974@nwnexus.WA.COM>
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- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 15:20:45 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan7.191406.25765@klaava.Helsinki.FI> lukka@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Tuomas J Lukka) writes:
-
- | One of the reasons that originally steered me toward Linux instead of
- | 386BSD was the latter's low version number (0.1) compared to Linux (0.97
- | at the time).
-
- Gee. I've always doubted it, but I guess this proves the marketeers claim
- that people will select a product based on such irrationalities as how shiny the
- package is, and how high the version number is. There is no hope for the
- human species...
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