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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: What kinds of things would you want in the GNU OS?
Message-ID: <10346@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 31 May 89 23:36:50 GMT
References: <106326@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <8380@june.cs.washington.edu> <438@banyan.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <438@banyan.UUCP> gil@banyan.com writes:
>No, you just want a decent Unix system that's FREE.

Right on!

I think there are three classes of enhancement "wish list" items
that people have been suggesting:

	- blue-sky research projects
	- significant known developments that would be a shame to
	  pass up, if one is going to build an OS from scratch anyway
	- minor glitches in historical UNIX that could easily be fixed

The last-mentioned category seems appropriate for GUN, the second
category needs to be thought about, and the first category is asking
too much.