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From: rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: OS costs
Summary: optimism springs eternal!
Message-ID: <1990Sep16.065031.22851@ico.isc.com>
Date: 16 Sep 90 06:50:31 GMT
References: <350@usaos.UUCP> <1990Aug28.182758.29036@ico.isc.com> <1990Sep12.125441.3523@scuzzy.mbx.sub.org>
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src@scuzzy.mbx.sub.org (Heiko Blume) writes:

> the GNU Bulletin from June says a free version should be available this year.
> if they can't get Mach they want to use MIT's TRIX or Berkley's Sprite.

Sorry for the boundless pessimism about FSF (for which I have some respect)
but the statement in the 6/90 GNU's Bulletin is approximately the same as
the statement in the 6/88 GNU's Bulletin.  In two years, their progress, to
a first approximation, has been zero.  They're working on stuff other than
the OS.  They're waiting for someone else to produce something they can
use.

I wish them well (sincerely!) but I hold out no hope until I see some real
movement.
-- 
Dick Dunn     rcd@ico.isc.com -or- ico!rcd       Boulder, CO   (303)449-2870
   ...I'm not cynical - just experienced.