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Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 11:39:50 -0800
From: "Neil A. Carson" <neil@causality.com>
Organization: Causality Limited
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To: John Kohl <jtk@kolvir.arlington.ma.us>
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Subject: Re: Need to counteract FUD from Rik Farrow's column in ;login:
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John Kohl wrote:

> Rik Farrow's "musings" column in April's ;login: (USENIX newsletter)
> says "While Linux already runs on more different processors than any
> other operating system, ..."

Sadly, that is correct (certainly in terms of free UNIXes, I don't know
about commercial stuff like VxWorks). However, many of these ports are
in the form of patches strewn around the 'net, rather than having been
nicely integrated into their source tree, and not all of them work on
the current version :-)

	Neil