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From: mwm@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike (My watch has windows) Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.unix.wizards,comp.os.misc
Subject: FSF and processor bigotry (Was: Mach, the new standard?)
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Date: Wed, 26-Aug-87 18:32:04 EDT
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In article <83@splut.UUCP> jay@splut.UUCP (Jay Maynard) writes:
<I'll support the Free Software Foundation when they give up their processor
<bigotry and decide to support the machine architecture that I use (PC/AT).
<Until then, why should I waste my money?

That's not processor bigotry, that *technology* bigotry. FSF is
building software for the *next* generation of micros (i.e., Sun 3
class machines), not the last one. Their software won't run on any of
the PC/AT generation machines (Amiga, Atari, later-day Mac Is, etc.).

On the other hand, it should run on a Mac ][ with the PMMU option, the
high-end IBM-PS boxes, and maybe some of the '386 IBM-PC clones.

It should also run on any '286 box with enough support hardware to run
4BSD, assuming you can find one.

If you want to stay with the PC/AT, you should go buy a copy of
Tanenbaum's _Operating Systems: Design and Implementation_, and order
Minix for your IBM-PC/AT. Cost is $79, comes with complete source
(which is used in the text as an example) and permission to give
copies to a couple of your friends. 

	<mike
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