Noone yet kows, why mpdillon@uuisis.isis.org (Michael Dillon) wrote:

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> [good idea about distribution of linux on CDs deleted...]
>  
> Note: when I said Linux will take 2 years to stabilise I wasn't referring to 
> bugs, I was referring to porting activity, DOS emulation, MS-Windows
                                                            ^^^^^^^^^^
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> support, etc... etc..  The decade of the 1990's will see many choices
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> for a desktop operating system and Linux is going to be right up
> there with Solaris, Windows NT, OS/2 etc... 
        ^^^^          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

        Do you really think it's necessary to support the
        messy-DOS-Windows if you can have X?  Do you really see
        anything in OS/2 that Linux can't do? (And probably better,
        once the version number has stopped changing every other
        day :)?????

        I don't.

        ...Wolfram