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- From: peter@global.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD? (long)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.114310.6436@global.hacktic.nl>
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 11:43:10 GMT
- References: <Bx39s8.FF6@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> <8923.9211021809@thor.cf.ac.uk> <Bx5oJz.rI@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> <Bx6CD6.BuF@unix.amherst.edu>
- Organization: Global Village 1
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- twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) writes:
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- >Get any one of them and you've got it. Linux, 386BSD, and SCO have
- >GUI interfaces. Linux, 386BSD, and SCO run in under 8MB -- well under
- >it, in fact.
-
- SCO is much, much more expensive than $300. ODT swaps like h*ll with 6M RAM so
- 8M is rather small too (using a normal 640x480x16 VGA card!).
-
- >>ONE unix that runs
- >>in 8MB installable with X from floppy, from Egghead.
-
- >Linux and 386BSD are free. How can you beat that, for God's sake?
-
- No support, no handholding.
-
- >Who was it who determined that "free" is among the three words most
- >likely to make Americans sit up and take notice?
-
- Free in the sense of the GNU Copyleft means freedom, not gratis per se.
-
- >>Hello? Do you know the two most popular operating systems today?
- >>Windows 3.1 and DOS.
- >That's one and a half operating systems. Or .75, depending on how you
- >look at it.
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- But nevertheless they sold several milion copies.
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