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From: rwa@auvax.UUCP (Ross Alexander)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: The GNU Manifesto
Message-ID: <485@auvax.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jan 88 12:07:17 GMT
References: <153@mozart.UUCP> <1351@sugar.UUCP>
Organization: Athabasca U., Alberta, Canada
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Summary: an individual _can_ hope to own a GNUbox

In article <1351@sugar.UUCP>, peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
> ... [GNU] probably will exist one day, but right now there is
> no such thing as GNU. There are a few very large programs out there that
> are supposed to have come from the GNU project, none of which will fit on
> any machine an individual can hope to own.

I believe that individuals can hope to own machines of the general {
Symmetric 375 | Sun 3 | 6386 | <your-favourite-small-box-here> }
class, and that indeed such private boxes will host GNU quite nicely.
In fact, I'm sure (entirely without any anecdotal evidence, mind)
that some people, more favoured by the ghods than myself, do own such
boxes even as I write this.  Jeeze, what a pessimist you are :-) :-)
:-)

Besides, I'll take a BSD flavour of U*nx over a v7-ish flavour any
day.  Of course, I'd rather have v7 while I'm waiting, too :-) Isn't
it nice that I can have it both ways?  Honestly, I can remember a
day when the thought of owning an 8K MC6800 was beyond my means.
Times they are a changin' :-)

--
Ross Alexander,
Sr Systems Programmer & Bottlewasher @ Athabasca University,
alberta!auvax!rwa