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From: ** N.T.K.C.D. ***
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1992 14:31

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Has anyone ever successful running Unix on 386/486??
386BSD is the berkeley Unix, Linux is another one...
On the commercial side I hear of one from Sun, call Sun PC???

What would be the advantage for me to switch from DOS to Unix??
I think the one from sun, we can run DOS prg too..

John

In article <7i6ViB1w164w@rhutch> john@rhutch (John Strittmatter) writes:
>> With a soon-to-be stable 386BSD release and an already quite stable and
>> usable free UNIX clone (Linux), no, the cost factor is more the other
>> direction now. :-) I don't know if anyone has compiled WAFFLE under
>> Linux yet, but I'm pretty confident it would work using a make for any
>> sysvr3. I've had next to no problems in getting some fairly sizeable
>> applications (which already work under Sys V) working under Linux.
>
>Linux???  Where can I get a copy of this?
>
>John
>uunet!rutgers!devon!sojurn!rhutch!john

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From: hho@aludra.usc.edu (** N.T.K.C.D. ***)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs.waffle
Subject: Unix for PC...
Date: 9 Apr 1992 07:31:21 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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