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From: rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.arch
Subject: Re: Jerry Pournelle on UNIX (From BYTE)
Message-ID: <442@pcrat.UUCP>
Date: 3 Jan 88 07:58:59 GMT
References: <1495@osiris.UUCP> <4877@well.UUCP>
Reply-To: rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson)
Organization: PC Research, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ
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Keywords: dig dis !

> From Jan BYTE: (Jerry Pournelle)
> 
> 	"I must say that as I watch the OS/2 story unfold, I do begin to
> wonder: if UNIX is ever made stable enough to be put in ROM, so that you

I gave up Byte years ago.  Pournelle should stick to SF.  Why would
you want to put *Anything* into ROM (on a PC). Stability? Yeh... we got it ...
the bugs are stable, they're in ROM.
-- 
	Rick Richardson, President, PC Research, Inc.
(201) 542-3734 (voice, nights)   OR   (201) 834-1378 (voice, days)
		seismo!uunet!pcrat!rick