Subject: Re: grrr...
To: Mirian Crzig Lennox <lennox@alcita.com>
From: Mason Loring Bliss <mason@acheron.middleboro.ma.us>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 04/19/1999 14:02:01
On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 01:17:59PM -0400, Mirian Crzig Lennox wrote:

> I recently had the displeasure of reading the following in a book on
> Linux ("Linux Kernel Internals, 2nd edition", Beck, Böhme, Dziadzka,
> Kunitz, Magnus, Verworner; Addison Wesley, 1999, p.3):
> 
> "Linux runs on several hardware platform, from the Amiga to the PC to
> DEC Alpha workstations.  Such hardware independence is achieved by no
> other serious operating system."

Well, yeah, but look where you're reading it. It's a shame that it's
incorrect, but I'm guessing that the authors aren't really on the fence
to any great extent...

Linux is the wave. We just need to ride it. :P

-- 
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