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Article #3157Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Anthony D. Tribelli
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 18:39
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 18:39
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Dan Pop (danpop@mail.cern.ch) wrote: : In <mem-1902961857250001@durin.pha.jhu.edu> mem@jhu.edu (Mel Martinez) writes: : >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. Implemented from scratch, hardly. When you have working models to examine and study you are not working from scratch. Linux is more of a replication than an invention. Or course, it is a very useful replication who price can't be beat. :-) Tony -- ------------------ Tony Tribelli adtribelli@acm.org
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!netcom.com!adt From: adt@netcom.com (Anthony D. Tribelli) Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....??? Message-ID: <adtDn52I3.Cp4@netcom.com> Followup-To: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] 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> <danpop.824848031@rscernix> Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 18:39:39 GMT Sender: adt@netcom3.netcom.com