Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 16:10:29 -0700 From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: joerg@krdl.org.sg (Joerg Micheel), jgrosch@mooseriver.com, marcs@znep.com, imp@village.org, jbryant@unix.tfs.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: solaris is free. Message-ID: <199808122310.QAA25510@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>
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On Wed, 12 Aug 1998 23:01:32 +0000 (GMT) Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> wrote: > If they were selling SunOS for $10 instead of Solaris, then you > might have a point. I think there is a lot of Sun hardware running > NetBSD because people are nostalgic for the feel of the old SunOS. More like: They have these good old workhorse machines, and they want to run an OS that doesn't suck, in constrast to SunOS and Solaris. If I wanted the nostalgia of running SunOS, I'd run SunOS. (Hey, I still have a machine that runs 4.2BSD...) Jason R. Thorpe thorpej@nas.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center Home: +1 408 866 1912 NAS: M/S 258-5 Work: +1 650 604 0935 Moffett Field, CA 94035 Pager: +1 650 940 5942 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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