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From: keithe@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Stoopid *nix freaks!
Keywords: O/S, OS/2, minix
Message-ID: <6953@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM>
Date: 27 Feb 90 01:23:45 GMT
References: <90052.182144CMH117@psuvm.psu.edu> <6937@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM> <16155@smunews.UUCP> <25e6d6ed.26a3@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> <23071@usc.edu>
Reply-To: keithe@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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In article <23071@usc.edu> kjh@pollux.usc.edu (Kenneth J. Hendrickson) writes:
<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.
<
Hey, folks, this is really getting ridiculous:

<So you don't think that minix is a real operating system?

No, I don't give a flying fart in the wind as to whether its real,
virtual or imaginary.

But I DO care about is that this is COMP.BINARIES.IBM.PC.D, meaning
"Discussions about articles posted in the comp.sys.ibm.pc" newsgroup.

Kindly keep this flatulence the hell OUT of c.b.i.p.d.!!!!!

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< 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_!

And some people thing the main newsgroup should be unmoderated.
Gads, the crap we'd have floating around in there, then!!!

kEITHe