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From: Jim Choate <ravage@ssz.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Cc: The Club Inferno <hell@einstein.ssz.com>,
	alg@austinlug.com, hangar18@einstein.ssz.com
Subject: [9fans] Re: Inferno magazine ad
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 12:18:44 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1010131121711.9448A-100000@einstein.ssz.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <008d01c08baf$0dc62140$0ab9c6d4@cybercable.fr>


On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Boyd Roberts wrote:

> what is the point of yet another bloated unix?  the time to
> wipe the slate clean was 10 years ago, but the 2nd ed price
> may have scared off some people as well as the fact that
> 'plan 9 is not unix'.  a blinkered unix/linux hack will
> stick with that 20+ year old techology.

No, Commodore never could hire a decent marketing team for the Amiga is
what happened.

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  reply	other threads:[~2001-01-31 18:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-01-30 19:07 [9fans] " andrey mirtchovski
2001-01-30 19:53 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-01-31 11:26   ` Christian Smith
2001-01-31 17:55     ` Boyd Roberts
2001-01-31 18:18       ` Jim Choate [this message]
2001-02-01  3:46       ` [9fans] Inferno magazine ad {OT} Eric Dorman
2001-02-01  3:25     ` [9fans] Inferno magazine ad Jim Bennett
2001-02-01 11:54       ` Christian Smith
2001-02-01 21:55 [9fans] " kim kubik

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