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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Tektronix shutdown & move away from 88k's??
Message-ID: <1990Nov2.173045.11519@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <2176@lupine.NCD.COM> <42310@mips.mips.COM> <PCG.90Oct28162504@teachh.cs.aber.ac.uk> <43029@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> <P0R6UO2@xds13.ferranti.com> <2804@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <VBS657B@xds13.ferranti.com> <1481@frapper.nsc.com> <3686@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 90 17:30:45 GMT

In article <3686@skye.ed.ac.uk> richard@aiai.UUCP (Richard Tobin) writes:
>With luck, within a year or so, they may be two industrial-strength
>free Unixes available - GNU, from the Free Software Foundation...

I would be really surprised to see a GNU kernel (never mind a *system*,
which requires dozens of utilities to be even marginally usable) within
a year.  I'd be even more surprised if it resembled Unix much.
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"I don't *want* to be normal!"         | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
"Not to worry."                        |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry
