From: uberig@gfx.engga.uwo.ca (Jason Uberig) Subject: Re: Can you port Linux to my Refrigerator? Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1993 19:45:20 GMT
In article <QUINLAN.93Sep8132001@rose.cs.bucknell.edu> quinlan@spectrum.cs.bucknell.edu writes:
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>uberig@gfx.engga.uwo.ca (Jason Uberig) writes:
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>> I browsed the group and didn't see any Atari related stuff. It sure
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>You know, I think that Linux should be ported to my refrigerator. I
>mean, it already has many built in features similar to Unix and I
>think that these facts should make a port simple.
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>If anyone knows where I can find someone else wanting to port Linux to
>refrigerators, please mail me so we can start work right away!
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>Back to reality.
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>This "port Linux to everything thing phenomenon" is rather silly. Why
>on Earth would you want to port it to anything nobody uses anymore? I
>don't want to know how slow any Unix would run on my Commodore 128
>(yes I still have a working one). I know that we aren't all made of
>gold, but 386's are dirt cheap these days.
>
>Dan
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>Daniel Quinlan
>quinlan@spectrum.cs.bucknell.edu
Daniel,
I really find it quite obnoxious that whenever someone asks a relatively
harmless question someone else (you) has to jump on it. I have as much humour
as anyone, but I honestly don't think that it's such a 'silly' thing to
consider porting Unix to the Atari line of things. In fact, if someone
has the source I'd be willing to hack away at it myself. Now on the point
of your Commodore 128 - yep, that system would be hard pressed to run a
Unix port. Btw, sure Linux was written for PC computers, but it's a
shame that people can't be more open-minded about other systems. I'm not
asking you to buy them, but it'd be nice if you gave them a chance. You
don't see me bashing the PC line - although, after having worked for IBM
I'm sure I could rightfully come up with many gripes.
Well, I've wasted enough bandwidth on this so I'll leave it at that. If
you feel that you've got something more to say about this please do it by
e-mail. No one likes a thread going on about personal disputes.
Thanks,
Jason.
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