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Subject: Re: Need to counteract FUD from Rik Farrow's column in ;login:
In-Reply-To: <3703CB86.5BEA3214@causality.com> from "Neil A. Carson" at "Apr 1, 1999 11:39:50 am"
To: neil@causality.com (Neil A. Carson)
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 15:43:37 -0500 (EST)
From: "D'Arcy" "J.M." Cain <darcy@druid.druid.net>
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Thus spake Neil A. Carson
> > 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

I'm confused.  Are you saying that NetBSD is not a free Unix or are you
saying that our 15 ports (not counting experimental ports) is less than
what Linux supports?  As far as I know, Linux doesn't run on more than 4
or 5 platforms.

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