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- From: amorton@cc.uow.edu.au (andrew morton)
- Subject: Re: harmful effects of gnu software II
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.012247.7610@cc.uow.edu.au>
- Organization: University Of Wollongong
- References: <C1CD82.4Gt@news2.cis.umn.edu> <1jtm7vINNis9@shelley.u.washington.edu>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 01:22:47 GMT
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- tzs@stein.u.washington.edu (Tim Smith) writes:
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- >UNIX is going to be killed by NT. After reading the latest UnixWorld, I
- >believe that. I didn't before, but the article about Cutler convinces me.
- >He's got the experience to write a good OS, and he's got the
- >proper motivation: he thinks he was screwed by someone and wants to get
- >back at them, and writing a very good OS is the way to do that.
-
- Perhaps, but if he's such a smart cookie how come he designed an
- OS that will only run on little-endian machines?
-