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From: jay@splut.UUCP (Jay Maynard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: A Nutty Idea
Message-ID: <470@splut.UUCP>
Date: 11 Apr 88 13:52:44 GMT
References: <231@unsvax.UUCP> <9804@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Reply-To: jay@splut.UUCP (Jay Maynard)
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Organization: Confederate Microsystems, League City, TX
Lines: 34
Keywords: volunteer GNU-like PD freeware
Summary: don't volunteer for GNU to get something going on your PC or Apple

In article <9804@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu.UUCP writes:
>In article <231@unsvax.UUCP> tlhingan@unsvax.uucp (Eugene Tramaglino) writes:
>>If everyone on the net with the appropriate skills volunteered 5
>>(five) hours per week of their time, we could write our own OS,
>>editor, utils, etc, ... I hereby volunteer my 5.  Now, we need a good
>>co-ordinator...
>
>Please send mail to info-gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu.  There's plenty of work
>for you to do.  GNU won't be PD, but it will be free, as are the
>utilities that are already available.

Well, almost. The only problem is that RMS holds PCs in contempt, and
refuses to even consider making GNU work on them. In short, he's a 68000
bigot when it comes to micros - and he will require them to support
demand-paged virtual memory. (Goodbye, GNU/Mac.)
A better place for your efforts would be in extending Minix; it's not PD
either, but it's cheap, and you even get a text in OS construction with
it.
See comp.os.minix for more info.

(Note: I'm not running minix; I learned about it after I spent $500 for
Microport System V/AT.)

>None of the Newsgroups included here are really appropriate for Yet
>Another Pro/Anti-GNU FlameFest, but then they haven't been appropriate
>for the already-rolling OS-feature wars here, either.

Followups to this one have been redirected to comp.sys.ibm.pc only, as
the comments really only pertain to the PC.
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