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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD and commercial s/w
To: dphillip@tabfs.com (Dale Phillips)
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 14:02:45 -0700 (MST)
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In-Reply-To:  <9601311626.aa13490@svr.tabfs.com> from "Dale Phillips" at Jan 31, 96 04:26:35 pm
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> If I were to buy a piece of commercial s/w for word processing...
> 
> What version of unix should I buy it for?

In order from best to worst:

	FreeBSD		8-)
	NetBSD
	BSDI
	Linux
	IBCS2 (SCO UNIX, SVR3)
	Mac (Executor Mac under Linux ABI)
	DOS (text mode only under PCEMU)
	Windows (Willows looks promising but it's not here yet!)


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.