Re: What sux about PowerMacs and Pentiums

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From: dkomo
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 1995 18:55

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Jim Williams <williams@tiac.net> wrote:
>
>If we were to go back a few revolutions on this thread, my original
>point was that given the potential of this technology there really hasn't
>been a whole lot of progress over the last 15 years.
>
>-- 
>Jim Williams.
>
>Find a Linux User Group near you: 
>http://www.tiac.net/users/williams/lugnuts/
>
>Buy Linux brand UNIX!
>

Agreed.  Then why are you promoting Linux?  Is Linux supposed to be your 
strange version of "progress?"  Aren't you the one that complained about
lack of originality in hardware design not so long ago?

There isn't a single idea in Linux/Unix that's any newer than a decade 
ago.  The main architecture of this ancient (some would say classical) OS 
dates from the Sixties and Seventies.

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Subject: Re: What sux about PowerMacs and Pentiums
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