Path: utzoo!telly!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!rutgers!elbereth.rutgers.edu!bschwart From: bschwart@elbereth.rutgers.edu (some great stormfowl, whenever he has walked his while) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: NAND -- Not ANother DOS Message-ID: Date: 8 Dec 89 20:07:02 GMT References: Reply-To: bschwart@elbereth.rutgers.edu (some great stormfowl, whenever he has walked his while) Organization: The Society for Anachronistic Poetry Lines: 28 In article nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu writes: >Freemacs is already covered by the copyleft. This I know. I was talking of politeness, not legalities. Oh, I have been getting letters about NAND that seem to miss the point. I am not suggesting that MSDOS-OS/2 level PCs are the wave of the future. I am suggesting they are fun toys and would be more fun if we had some well coordinated free software project going. There was decent software being turned out for 8-bit micros well into the age of 16-bit micros. 8-bit micros remained fun. Also, there is always room for development software that can reside on prototypes of embedded systems--so FORTH would be a natural part of the NAND project, and other such software. NAND is not GNU. It is something related, but different. GNU is out there to produce a professional system. NAND is out there to produce a professional quality toy. No competition intended, Mr. Stallman. Keep up the good work. -- Barry Schwartz, Chief SAPsucker bbs@cdspr.rutgers.edu Grad Student, Dept. of Elec. and Comp. Engg. bschwart@elbereth.rutgers.edu Rutgers University College of Engg. bbs@hankel.rutgers.edu Piscataway, NJ 08854 U.S.A. rutgers!cdspr!bbs