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From: bobcoe@XAIT.Xerox.COM (Robert K. Coe)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Request opinions on bringing non-unix machines onto the net
Message-ID: <35371@XAIT.Xerox.COM>
Date: 21 Oct 88 16:21:14 GMT
References: <29@aimed.UUCP>
Reply-To: bobcoe@XAIT.Xerox.COM (Robert K. Coe)
Organization: Xerox Corporation, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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In article <29@aimed.UUCP> nick@aimed.UUCP (Nick Pemberton) writes:
}I have been interested for some time in bringing non-unix machines,
}specifically PICK-based machines onto the net...
}
}What I am interested in hearing from folks on the net is their thoughts on
}bringing other Operating Systems on board. If this works as well as it
}is capable of, there would be a large number of potential new sites on the
}net (and therefore, no doubt) an increased traffic load. There would also
}be a lot of new perspectives floating about, since PICK and UNIX are *so*
}different. 

This may come as a shock to you, but the perspectives reflected in *my*
postings are my own, and not those of my operating system.   :^)
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