Newsgroups: comp.arch Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Tektronix shutdown & move away from 88k's?? Message-ID: <1990Nov2.173045.11519@zoo.toronto.edu> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <2176@lupine.NCD.COM> <42310@mips.mips.COM> <43029@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> <2804@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <1481@frapper.nsc.com> <3686@skye.ed.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 2 Nov 90 17:30:45 GMT In article <3686@skye.ed.ac.uk> richard@aiai.UUCP (Richard Tobin) writes: >With luck, within a year or so, they may be two industrial-strength >free Unixes available - GNU, from the Free Software Foundation... I would be really surprised to see a GNU kernel (never mind a *system*, which requires dozens of utilities to be even marginally usable) within a year. I'd be even more surprised if it resembled Unix much. -- "I don't *want* to be normal!" | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology "Not to worry." | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry