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In article <199702141455.JAA12395@news.cioe.com>,
Steve Ames  <steve@news.cioe.com> wrote:
>I thought the gnu people were working on a UNIX varient also? Anyone know
>the status on that?

Hurd is a very interesting operating system. A lot of people see it as a
waste of time, but if they can get it working it's got the potential of
being a very nice environment indeed. If they can't, well, it's pretty much
a dead issue any more now that BSD and Linux are available.