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Date:      Sun, 28 Jul 1996 16:48:28 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        Brian <nigol@smartnet.net>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.960728164659.226M-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960725033725.006741cc@smartnet.net>

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On Wed, 24 Jul 1996, Brian wrote:

> Hi, I was just hoping to solicit a few opinions... Why BSD over any of the
> others available? BSD is a type of Unix correct? Why Unix, and especially
> BSD, over Windows NT?

FreeBSD is a version of 4.4BSD, which is a UNIX-like operating system for
the i386 architecture (386,486,Pent,P6).

Why UNIX over NT?  Well, that depends on what you are doing.  They are
completely different operating systems (although some elements of NT had
roots in unix).  

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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