From:	"Ojaste,James [NCR]" <James.Ojaste@**.GC.CA>
Subject:	Re: "Free" Software (was: Euro question)
Date:	Fri, 1 May 1998 13:49:03 -0400

Spike wrote:
>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?

Insult, what insult? It's not like I mind insulting your favourite
computer, but I'd like to know how to defend myself. ;-)

>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....

Well, DOS was based on Unix and CPM - each of which had preemptive
multitasking. DOS chose the worst features of each, discarded some
more stuff that was useful, warped the rest and sat there smugly as
IBM forked over the cash.

Unix was doing stuff that DOS could never do in the early 70s. I
don't remember exactly when X appeared on the scene, but Windows
has never matched it either. Beat that! :-)

James Ojaste