Taper Wickel wrote: > > Joseph Gaffney writes: > > > At 04:25 PM 2/24/98 -0500, Arne W Flones wrote: > > > > If it doesn't run Linux, I'm just not interested. There is just no > > > need to drop to that level of a system with today's technology. > > > A) Linux is not a major advancement in technology. Go look at ugu.com and > > see exactly where linux stands in the unix market (and I do mean with other > > freely distributable OS's). > > True, Linux isn't an advancement in technology. It is, however, a > robust, adaptable low-cost unix system that'll do just about anything > you want it to on just about whatever 32+ bit processor you want. > > (ugu.com is a great resource, but it really doesn't show anything as > to 'where it stands'... and with the exceptions of the free BDSs and > Hurd, all the unices there are most definitely payware...) > > Taper. Definitely. And it seems that certain things such as an answer to denial of service attacks [remember that one?] seem to come to linux fast or faster than anything else. If that's not advanced what is. Simple: define your terms evil linux abuser. :-0 Having stoked the flame a little let's return to the usual programming. Tonight "Bizarre, Politically Correct but Tenuously Related Names". On a serious note does anyone on the list have a net reference to Alan Kay's "Dynabook"? mitch
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