From: rgooch@rp.CSIRO.AU (Richard Gooch) Subject: Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Macintosh port of LINUX (free UNIX) now available Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1993 22:18:22 GMT
In article <1993Apr2.193112.8647@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>, farrow@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (J. Scott Farrow) writes:
> frampton@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca (Steve Frampton) writes:
>
> >bp@castle.ed.ac.uk (Charng Puangkird ) writes:
>
> >> Excerpt from /pub/mdw/Linux-mac/README
> >>
> >> Happy April Fools Day!
> >> In case you didn't get the joke, Linux-Mac doesn't exist (not yet, in any
> >> case). Sorry to let you down.
>
> >This kind of "joke" wastes time and money. Because the original posting
> >was dated April *2nd*, 1993 I took it to be truthful.
>
> I thought it was hilarious!
>
> Even if you didn't know better, the fact that Matt claimed
> "binary compatability" with existing 386 code should have clued you in.
>
>
Unless he is a masochist (you know, run Linux on an 386-PC emulator running
on a Mac)... Giggle.
Regards,
Richard Gooch....