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From: chet.ramey@case.edu (Chet Ramey)
Subject: [TUHS] Why Linux not another PC/UNIX [was Mach for i386 ...]
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 12:06:20 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8c534c33-349d-3c3c-ebaf-eccf49928784@case.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC20D2N74KiRfBzmiGmvyHTgaaMQfPd9QBYc_iUt6nCz7wdA3A@mail.gmail.com>

On 2/22/17 12:00 PM, Clem Cole wrote:

> But you are right .. no one was really sure what was going to happen.   So
> the BSD/386 iso's were hidden, so at least officially they could say the
> only people that we supposed to have access were the BSD licensees.   But
> as I say it was a well known "secret." 

This has very much the aura of a private club.  If you were in the club,
the secret was well known, but most of the people who went to Linux and
supported its growth were not.

-- 
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
		 ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet at case.edu    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/


  reply	other threads:[~2017-02-22 17:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-22  3:38 Clem Cole
2017-02-22  4:28 ` Dan Cross
2017-02-22 15:36   ` Clem Cole
2017-02-22 16:11     ` Larry McVoy
2017-02-22 17:00       ` Clem Cole
2017-02-22 17:06         ` Chet Ramey [this message]
2017-02-22 18:24         ` Larry McVoy
2017-02-22 19:35           ` Clem Cole
2017-02-22 20:18             ` arnold
2017-02-22 22:11               ` Clem Cole
2017-02-22 21:34             ` Larry McVoy
2017-02-22 22:56               ` Clem Cole
2017-02-22 23:13                 ` Larry McVoy
2017-02-22 23:51                   ` Clem Cole
2017-02-22 23:51           ` Paul Ruizendaal
2017-02-23 19:15             ` Clem Cole
2017-02-23 20:31               ` Random832
2017-02-23 22:48                 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-02-24  2:07                   ` Jason Stevens
2017-02-23 23:06                 ` Wesley Parish
2017-02-22 17:41       ` Arthur Krewat
2017-02-22 21:00     ` Michael Kerpan
2017-02-22 22:03       ` Arno Griffioen
2017-02-22 22:51         ` Larry McVoy
2017-02-22 23:29         ` Clem Cole
2017-02-23  4:53           ` Gregg Levine
2017-02-22 22:18       ` Clem Cole
2017-02-24  3:53     ` Dan Cross
2017-02-22  5:56 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-02-24  5:31   ` John Labovitz

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