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From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: "Free" Software (was: Euro question)
Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 17:34:11 +0100
And verily, did Ojaste,James [NCR] hastily scribble thusly...
|Minix. Linus wasn't satisfied with minix so he decided to write his
|own version. Or are you asking about the hardware? If so, I'm not
|sure. Probably a 286 clone of some sort.

How *dare* you insult my favourite computer in the whole wide world like
that?

:)

The Sinclair QL has a GOOD, preemptive operating system, it does
things that DOS could never do.....

And it was doing that 15 years ago....

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|u5a77@*****.cs.keele.ac.uk| Windows95 (noun): 32 bit extensions and a |
| | graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit |
|Andrew Halliwell | operating system originally coded for a 4 bit |
|Principal Subjects in:- |microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company, that|
|Comp Sci & Electronics | can't stand 1 bit of competition. |
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