Re: Dream OS = Linux || FreeBSD

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From: Benito Horta
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 02:18

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Markus Gail (markus@fra.xtac.de) wrote:
: 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
: [...]

I remember Coherent, I used to run that until I came across linux :) much 
more robust than coherent. I remember in coherent Gnu C++ costed 50$, 
Open look windows manager 50$ etc...

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Date: 25 Aug 1995 02:18:12 GMT
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