From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Apr 20 16:19:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA25980 for chat-outgoing; Sun, 20 Apr 1997 16:19:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.konnections.com (mail.konnections.com [192.41.71.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA25975 for ; Sun, 20 Apr 1997 16:19:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from castle (root@ip214.konnections.com [192.41.71.214]) by mail.konnections.com (8.8.3/8.8.3) with SMTP id RAA00891; Sun, 20 Apr 1997 17:18:21 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <335C027E.1CF2FAC7@konnections.com> Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 17:12:47 -0700 From: mike allison Organization: Publisher -- Burning Eagle Book Company X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; Linux 2.0.0 i486) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu CC: jkh@time.cdrom.com, jack@diamond.xtalwind.net, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Price of FreeBSD (was On Holy Wars...) References: <199704202248.SAA00418@diazepam.gnu.ai.mit.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Yeah, I don't know enough about what NT's built on. Certainly Unix is still unix whether you're running X or not. I don't know how closely NT is built into the machine or what the underlying philosophy is. -Mike Joel Ray Holveck wrote: > > > NT needs an NTterm where you can attack the machine.... > > 95's command.com just wouldn't cut it, tho. The Unix toolbox theory > letting those of us with glasses write micro-programs on the command > line to get nontrivial tasks accomplished is decidedly a Good Thing. > > -- > http://www.wp.com/piquan --- Joel Ray Holveck --- joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu > All my opinions are my own, not the Free Software Foundation's. > > Second law of programming: > Anything that can go wrong wi > sendmail: segmentation violation -- core dumped