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From: peter@sugar.UUCP
Newsgroups: 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 20:01:56 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug 29 20:01:56 1987
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Summary: How are we supposed to do this?

> GNU Project alone.  The GNU system is being developed so ALL of us can
> use it, so we all should pitch in.  Think how much sooner the GNU
> system would be completed if each one of us were to take one small
> part of the project and work on it in our spare time.

The problem is that the GNU project isn't being developed for ALL of us to
use it, just the ones with virtual memory. I think they're too optimistic
about the power of future machines. I don't think personal computers will
have VM for a long time yet.

This means that there's no incentive to work for GNU... we won't get anything
for it... and even if we wanted to help them out anyway we don't have the VM
machines to do the work on.

Also, VM isn't always appropriate. You can't do real-time with VM, for example.

Maybe we need a LLAMA project: Little League Amateur Mach Analog.
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