Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!orchid!egisin
From: egisin@orchid.waterloo.edu (Eric Gisin)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: The GNU Manifesto
Message-ID: <12242@orchid.waterloo.edu>
Date: 16 Jan 88 23:33:41 GMT
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Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <2930@killer.UUCP>, jfh@killer.UUCP (The Beach Bum) writes:
> Let's not confuse the hardware with the software.  I have a '386 at home
> running Xenix at this very moment.
[...]
> They really are fast.  In huge model it benchmarks the same as my 5 year
> old 6MHz 68000 box.  With one wait state memory.

I didn't know the 386 was *that* slow.