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From: Rick Hamell <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com>
To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
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Subject: Re: OS portability (was: Things you learn in school)
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> > The problem is: how many people actually buy a new Ultra SPARC or an IBM
> > PPC to run Linux on it? I mean serious users trying to use it for
> > business purposes.
> 
> Why not?  UltraSPARCs come pretty cheap these days, and even Linux is
> better than *ack* *phtui* Solaris.

	I'm saving up to buy an Ultra Sparc right now... NetBSD or Linux
will be installed first thing. :)

	Rick


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