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- From: peter@ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
- Subject: Re: The PC-UNIX Buyer's Guides --- Why I Won't Stop Editorializing
- Message-ID: <id.MWFS.86L@ferranti.com>
- Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
- References: <1hSwPD#8Xxyw30ZVkRvBDkpTg53JPOx=esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 17:58:32 GMT
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- In article <1hSwPD#8Xxyw30ZVkRvBDkpTg53JPOx=esr@snark.thyrsus.com> esr@snark.thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond) writes:
- > One thing I want everyone, friend or foe, to recognise, is that the Buyer's
- > Guides are one bleeding hell of a lot of work for little or no gain.
-
- I'll buy that, having done a similar job in the past. And I'll agree that it's
- useful. I still think you should at least open it up to a few more less-than-
- bleeding-edge systems... for someone who doesn't want X or networking, there
- really isn't that much to V.4 over V.3.2, or SCO Unix over SCO Xenix.
- --
- Peter da Silva `-_-'
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