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Date:      Tue, 21 Jul 1998 22:28:01 +0200
From:      Johann Visagie <wjv@cityip.co.za>
To:        itch <ardi@iafrica.com.na>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        itchmeister@yahoo.com
Subject:   Re: Help !!!!!!!!
Message-ID:  <19980721222801.A5548@cityip.co.za>
In-Reply-To: <000701bdb4d4$05d8c280$1ce01fc4@ardicoet>; from itch on Tue, Jul 21, 1998 at 08:18:40PM %2B0200
References:  <000701bdb4d4$05d8c280$1ce01fc4@ardicoet>

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On Tue, 21 Jul 1998 at 20:18 SAT, itch wrote:
> 
> Here's my quesrie: I saw FreeBSD at www.cows.org so I thought I might as
> well go there. Now first, what is FreeBSD ?

It's a freely available operating system for x86 "PC compatible" computers,
based on BSD, the version of Unix developed over many years at the University
of California at Berkeley.

For the record, BSD was the operating system which received a US Govt grant
to incorporate the TCP/IP protocol in order to encourage its widespread use,
and can therefore be seen as a significant factor in the development of the
Internet.  Many Internet servers still run some form of Unix derived (at
least partially) from BSD.

> And Second, does it work on Windows 95 and how does it work ?

No, it is a complete operating system.

-- V

Johann Visagie | Email: wjv@CityIP.co.za | Tel: +27 21 419-7878

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