🚀 go-pugleaf

nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson) writes:
> In article <suLVVB13w165w@mantis.co.uk> mathew writes:
>    That would be interesting.  We'd get to see whether the FSF would stick to
>    their professed principles and boycott DOS machines.
> 
> Being ridiculous as usual, eh?  DOS machines do more than run DOS.
> They also run Linux very well.

Sure, you can have multiple partitions.  But I doubt many people will be keen
to transfer their files and re-boot in order to run GAWK.

>                             In fact, Linux runs a LOT faster on a
> DOS machine than DOS does.  Something about using it like a 32-bit
> machine instead of an 8-bit machine.

That's as maybe.  Some people *have to* run DOS, because the software they
want isn't available for Linux.  They don't want to choose between GNU utils
and their favourite software; they want to have both.


mathew