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Gnu *nix: The time for it is now!

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From: Robert Withrow
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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From: withrow@vino.enet.dec.com (Robert Withrow)
Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Gnu *nix:  The time for it is now!
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Date: 29 Oct 90 22:51:37 GMT
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Posted: Mon Oct 29 23:51:37 1990