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From: cowan@mercury.ccil.org (John Cowan)
Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2014 22:24:20 -0400
Subject: [TUHS] Gnu/Stallman (was Bugs in V6 'dcheck')
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Doug McIlroy scripsit:

> But all disagreement is swept away before the fact that the old 
> familiar environment is everywhere, from Cray to Apple, with rms 
> a very important contributor.

Amen.

My checkered career has taken me from Eunice to Microsoft Xenix System III
to Solaris to BSD386 to Linux (native and CoLinux) to Cygwin, and
except when playing a sysadmin I have never had to know or care which
flavor of the Grand Ole OSry I was using that year.

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