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From: c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku)
Subject: Re: Unix Haters
Date: 1996/04/02
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In article <Pine.A32.3.91.960331200116.136611A-100000@matisse.its.rpi.edu>,
Kengo Hashimoto  <hashik@rpi.edu> wrote:
>Well, yes, that's the *mainstream* application of unix. But when was the 
>last time something like Windows was running on PDP-10? And for 
>preemptive multitasking, Linux does it much better than OS/2 Warp, 
>Windows 95, or Windows NT. Last I checked, System 7X did *not* 
>preemptively multitask. Now it is true that most unix systems are the 

Also, System 7X is _huge_. You have to count that ``dark matter'' of the Mac
that is hidden in its ROM. If you moved all the ROM code from the Mac into the
actual bottable OS, you would end up with a ``kernel'' that is larger than
probably any UNIX. 
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