Re: Dream OS = Linux || FreeBSD

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From: Markus Gail
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 18:42

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Amancio Hasty Jr (hasty@netcom.com) wrote:
: In article <adtDDqttF.1DL@netcom.com> adt@netcom.com (Anthony D. Tribelli) writes:
: >Dan Pop (Dan.Pop@mail.cern.ch) wrote:
: >: ... Without any kind of marketing forces behind it,
: >: Linux got pretty well spread ...
: >

: >
: >If AT&T, Dec, or Sun had come out with a low-cost (<$100) UNIX
: >implementation for PCs then linux would not have enjoyed much popularity
: >at all. Very few people care about source code. There was a demand for
: >UNIX, linux was the first thing that showed up.
: >

Not quite. There was a low-cost UNIX: Coherent. However, Linux appeared 
and Coherent disappeared amazingly fast...

Bye,
Markus

: Cough....

: Don't forget initially  386bsd  was out there first and now we
[...]

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Subject: Re: Dream OS = Linux || FreeBSD
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