From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Dec 17 17:36:33 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id RAA07168 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 17 Dec 1996 17:36:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from cynic.portal.ca (cynic.portal.ca [204.174.36.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id RAA07159 for ; Tue, 17 Dec 1996 17:36:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost ([[UNIX: localhost]]) by cynic.portal.ca (8.7.6/8.6.9) with SMTP id RAA23598; Tue, 17 Dec 1996 17:33:43 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: cynic.portal.ca: cjs owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 17:33:43 -0800 (PST) From: Curt Sampson To: Travis Hassloch x231 cc: netbsd-users@NetBSD.ORG, freebsd-chat@freebsd.ORG Subject: Re: Jolitz Preaches NT In-Reply-To: <199612180116.TAA15909@tahiti.evtech.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Just a couple of points on Bill Jolitz's `NT will bury Unix' remark: On Tue, 17 Dec 1996, Travis Hassloch x231 wrote: > I feel sorry for anyone waiting for 386BSD 0.2. > I hope they all gave up years ago. 1.0 has been out for some time. It's not free. To forstall the inevitable accusations that it's missing some of the features or stability of the other BSDs, I'd like to point out that that's right up there with accusing the FreeBSD folks of not having multi-CPU support: truthful, but a bit pointless because it's not a primary aim of the developers. The primary aim of 386BSD is to be read by those interested in learning about operating systems. And it does have an advantage in this regard over any other BSD out there right now: there's at least one book that goes into the gory details of how it works. > There is no doubt in my mind that NT will be a better financial success > than free Unixes. So what? Tell us something we don't know. > Since when has financial success ever indicated technical merit? Since when did saying `NT will bury Unix' have anything to do with technical merit? cjs Curt Sampson cjs@portal.ca Info at http://www.portal.ca/ Internet Portal Services, Inc. Vancouver, BC (604) 257-9400 De gustibus, aut bene aut nihil.