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Article #3144Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Dan Pop
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 20:27
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 20:27
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In <mem-1902961857250001@durin.pha.jhu.edu> mem@jhu.edu (Mel Martinez) writes: >In article <danpop.824606547@rscernix>, danpop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop) wrote: > >] >Linux, and UNIXes in general, were >] >very much designed with portability in mind. >] >] This is false about Linux, which was designed with 386 in mind. It took >] Linus a few months to remove the 386 dependencies from the kernel (and this >] was not a full-time job for him) when he ported it to Alpha. >] > >Misleading. _Unix_ itself has had many many years to evolve towards >platform independency. How "many many" years, exactly? >Linus had the benefit of all that previous >development when implementing and then revising Linux. Linux was implemented from scratch. Otherwise it couldn't be put under the GPL. For example, during the early days its networking was rather flakey, because the BSD implementation couldn't be used. Dan -- Dan Pop CERN, CN Division Email: danpop@mail.cern.ch Mail: CERN - PPE, Bat. 31 R-004, CH-1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!rcp6.elan.af.mil!rscernix!danpop From: danpop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....??? Date: 20 Feb 96 20:27:11 GMT Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics Message-ID: <danpop.824848031@rscernix> References: <nevin-0602962253080001@150.135.1.79> <danpop.824304112@rscernix> <4g00uj$gaq@nuke.csu.net> <danpop.824477998@rscernix> <4g3t0l$b71@nuke.csu.net> <danpop.824606547@rscernix> <mem-1902961857250001@durin.pha.jhu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ues5.cern.ch X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #7 (NOV)