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Article #75166Gnu *nix: The time for it is now!
From: Robert Withrow
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 1990 22:51
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 1990 22:51
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Consider this a rally cry: The GNU ``kernel'' has been in RSN state for years now. Lets get to it! With the advent of tremendously expensive SYSVr4.0, OSF1.*, etc *NOW* is the time for us to have GNU *nix. Most of the supporting utilities are there (GCC, GDB, EMACS, Gnu Make, RCS, etc.....) We have a good SPEC for the interface (I.E. POSIX). We have tons of relatively high performance and cheap hardware (I.E. 386 AT style computers). What we *DONT* have is GNU *nix!!! I, personally, have been spending the last several years of my life porting OSes to new hardware. I have also, due to the lack of altern- tives, been sending good money to bad Unix vendors who give me squat for support, and nary a ``thank you'' in return! Enough is enough! I *refuse* to buy another version of unix ever again!!! If I have to, I'll write the damn thing myself! Now I know that the FSF has been working on this; but, I repeat, the time for GNU *nix is NOW! I don't care if it is based on MACH, or LOX. After all, the kernel code for SYSVr3 is MUCH SMALLER THAN that for GNU EMACS! I don't see any reason why, a year from now, I should not be running Gnu *nix V1.5! Lets start parcelling out the work. Let's settle on a machine architecture for the first version. Lets start writing code! I volenteer! What about you! Come on, FSF, get us INVOLVED. WE WANT TO WRITE CODE!!! (Gosh. I feel better now. ``I feel beter than James Brown!'')
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,91ba623dc61d0699,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1990-10-29 14:51:37 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!shelby!decwrl!bacchus.pa.dec.com!shlump.nac.dec.com!ryn.esg.dec.com!vino.enet.dec.com!withrow From: withrow@vino.enet.dec.com (Robert Withrow) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Gnu *nix: The time for it is now! Message-ID: <1990Oct29.173227@vino.enet.dec.com> Date: 29 Oct 90 22:51:37 GMT Sender: guest@ryn.esg.dec.com Reply-To: witr@spooky.uucp (Robert Withrow) Organization: R.W. Withrow Associates Lines: 28 Posted: Mon Oct 29 23:51:37 1990