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From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
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Subject: Re: solaris is free.
In-Reply-To: <199808122310.QAA25510@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> from Jason Thorpe at "Aug 12, 98 04:10:29 pm"
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Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 21:58:27 +0200 (CEST)
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As Jason Thorpe wrote...
> On Wed, 12 Aug 1998 23:01:32 +0000 (GMT) 
>  Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> wrote:
> 
>  > If they were selling SunOS for $10 instead of Solaris, then you
>  > might have a point.  I think there is a lot of Sun hardware running
>  > NetBSD because people are nostalgic for the feel of the old SunOS.
> 
> More like: They have these good old workhorse machines, and they want
> to run an OS that doesn't suck, in constrast to SunOS and Solaris.
> 
> If I wanted the nostalgia of running SunOS, I'd run SunOS.  (Hey, I
> still have a machine that runs 4.2BSD...)

You must be a newbie..... 2.11BSD here (PDP11/73)

Could not resist.. 8-)
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