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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.unix.wizards,comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: Free Software Foundation (was: Re: Mach, the new standard?)
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Date: Sat, 29-Aug-87 19:31:02 EDT
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In article <738@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM> kempf@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM (Jim Kempf) writes:
>I, too, would like to see FSF's software on the PC/AT and PC/XT, but
>I think its unreasonable to expect FSF to do it. 

The hard part is the OS kernel, and for that you can use MINIX
(subscribe to comp.os.minix).  User-mode utilities should not be
too hard to port to MINIX.