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From: Kelly Yancey <kbyanc@posi.net>
To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG, Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: Kernel Thread scheduler
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On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote:

> Why do we even care?  When was the last time wine was good for
> anything besideds barely being able to run solitare on FreeBSD
> anyhow?
> 

  Why do we care? Because applications are the raison d'etre of operation
systems. :) And this application in particular is the gateway to a heck of a
lot more applications (whether you personally use those applications or not
is beside the point).

  Kelly

[*] I have never used wine myself, but I was flabbergasted by this remark.


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