From: Kirk Hays (hays@ssd.intel.com)
Date: 04/02/93


From: hays@ssd.intel.com (Kirk Hays)
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Macintosh port of LINUX (free UNIX) now available
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1993 18:54:58 GMT

In article <1pg4ja$if@fitz.TC.Cornell.EDU>, mdw@db.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh) writes:
|> LINUX 0.99.pl6 for the MACINTOSH
|>
|> The first BETA version of Linux, the free UNIX clone for the Macintosh is
|> now available. Linux was originally developed for the 386 by Linux Torvalds

|> Essentially, Linux-Mac has all of the features as the
|> original Linux for the 386... the two are binary compatible, so that with
|> the Linux-Mac kernel you can use all of the utilities and available software
|> for Linux-386.

Intriguing - binary compatibility between an Intel processor, and a Motorola
processor. This must be a first. Congratulations.

You should have, of course, posted April 1st, not April 2nd.

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