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From: kjh@pollux.usc.edu (Kenneth J. Hendrickson)
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Subject: Re: Stoopid *nix freaks!
Keywords: O/S, OS/2, minix
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Date: 24 Feb 90 22:42:33 GMT
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In article <25e6d6ed.26a3@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> jdudeck@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck) writes:
>OS/2 is the first REAL operating system for personal computers.  
>
>John Dudeck                           "You want to read the code closely..." 
>jdudeck@Polyslo.CalPoly.Edu             -- C. Staley, in OS course, teaching 
>ESL: 62013975 Tel: 805-545-9549          Tanenbaum's MINIX operating system.

So you don't think that minix is a real operating system?  Could have
suprised me.  It is Unix version 7!  Just because the source code is
available doesn't make it bad.  Just because it is inexpensive doesn't
make it "unreal".  Just because you can talk to the author right here by
e-mail doesn't make it unprofessional.  Just because there is a whole
newsgroup for minix doesn't mean there isn't software available.  As a
matter of fact, all of the things I have listed are _ADVANTAGES_!

Ken Hendrickson N8DGN        kjh@usc.edu        ...!uunet!usc!pollux!kjh