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In article <1839@zipeecs.umich.edu> don@zip.eecs.umich.edu (Don Winsor) writes:
>I am in the process of selecting hardware for a free software
>development environment.  This is greatly complicated by the fact that
...
>
>A) Buy a workstation (Sun, DEC, NeXT, etc.) and live with
>   the proprietary operating system supplied for it by its
>   manufacturer until a free operating system is available.
>
>B) Buy PC clone style hardware (with a 486, 386 or 386 SX CPU;
>   I see no point in wasting efforts on old architectures with
>   inadequate address spaces) and buy one of the proprietary Unix
>   ports for it to use until a free operating system is available.

Buy a 386 PC, get Mach for free, and purchase the Andrew file system
(to be available "soon") from Transarc, then load it up with the
GNU utilities, and the BSD4.3 tahoe utilities, which are distributed
by FSF.  I am looking into this myself; send me mail, if you are
interested, and I will pass on the details when I get them.

This is only if you cannot wait for GNU to be released; it will have it all
for free.
-- 
Michael D. Crawford
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