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From: greg@utcsri.UUCP (Gregory Smith)
Newsgroups: net.micro.68k
Subject: Re: A 'generic 68K OS' needed
Message-ID: <2348@utcsri.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 17-Mar-86 13:10:20 EST
Article-I.D.: utcsri.2348
Posted: Mon Mar 17 13:10:20 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 17-Mar-86 13:39:33 EST
References: <1270@caip.RUTGERS.EDU> <408@ccivax.UUCP> <6489@utzoo.UUCP> <81@gilbbs.UUCP>
Reply-To: greg@utcsri.UUCP (Gregory Smith)
Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
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Summary: 

In article <81@gilbbs.UUCP> mc68020@gilbbs.UUCP writes:
>> > ...What's wrong with GNU?...
>> It doesn't exist yet.
>
>   And of course, it is absolutely essential that we settle on something
>yesterday.  I guess we'd better use something inadequate, difficult to deal
>with, and arcane like FORTH...after all, we can get that now.
>
Exactly. IBM chose the 8088, didn't they? Commodore and Apple chose the
(urp,gag) 6502 way back when, didn't they?  Time waits for no good sense... :-)
>   *yawn*
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"No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn" -J. Morrison
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Greg Smith     University of Toronto       ..!decvax!utzoo!utcsri!greg