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- From: pjangli@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Philip Anglin)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: Restrictions on 'free' UNIX / 386BSD (Re: selling 386BSD)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.214121.26825@afterlife.ncsc.mil>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 21:41:21 GMT
- References: <PHR.92Aug17110648@soda.berkeley.edu> <GTFIR8A@taronga.com> <1992Aug18.155958.3671@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Organization: The Great Beyond
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- In article <1992Aug18.155958.3671@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> gsh7w@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Hennessy) writes:
- >In article <GTFIR8A@taronga.com> peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
- >#And while it's [MSDOS] a screaming horror from
- >#the sewers of hell, it *does* run out of the box without any diddling, and
- >#has a zillion applications for it.
- >
- >Then how come every time my brother wants to install a new program, I
- >have to use EDLIN to edit the config.sys file on his pc?
- >
- And how come I have to wrestle with add-on memory managers to
- use anything beyond 640K? How come I have to severely limit
- the number of network drivers, device drivers, tsr's, etc, that
- I have loaded, lest I run out of memory? I've done a heck of a
- lot more "diddling" with my PC than I have with my SparcStation.
- At least Unix uses all its available memory right out of the box.
-
- --
- /*************** pjangli@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Philip J. Anglin) **************/
- /* Disclaimer: My employer doesn't speak for me, and I don't speak for them. */
- /* Views expressed are mine alone... Boy, are they ever! ;-) */
- /* Cute Quote: "Intel: Putting the 'backward' in 'backward compatibility'." */
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