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From: fdr@apollo.uucp (Franklin Reynolds)
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: Wed, 31-Dec-69 18:59:59 EDT
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Posted: Wed Dec 31 18:59:59 1969
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In article <486@ast.cs.vu.nl> ast@cs.vu.nl () writes:
>
>640K?  Why would he need 640K?  MINIX runs quite well on a 512K AT
>with one 1.2M floppy disk.  Who needs 640K?
>
>Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)

I assume you left off the ":)" by accident. If GNU is supposed to be
BSD 4.3 compatable it is a significantly more ambitious effort than
MINIX. MINIX is a decent, small system for teaching. GNU is supposed
to be suitable for research or commercial development.

I have been looking for an inexpensive, Unix-based system for my
personal use. MINIX isn't powerful enough to be useful to me, even 
for hobby hacking. Hopefully GNU will be.

Franklin Reynolds 
fdr@apollo.uucp