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osOpinion: UN*X on NT

[ Thanks to Kelly
McNeill
for this link. ]

“Netscape 6, on the other hand, is a disaster on a slow machine.
Mozilla’s version of the same product, without all the icing, is,
in my view, a whole lot better. Opera 5 isn’t half bad either, even
with the advertisements.”

“This brings us to my main topic — running a UNIX-compatible
operating system on top of NT….”

“The sweetest way to run UN*X on NT for me is DOSMINIX.
Descended from Andrew Tanenbaum’s venerable, though slightly old,
MINIX operating system, DOSMINIX is a full, source-code, BSD
licensed, UN*X powerhouse running in a cmd.exe box on NT (and
possibly Win2K).”

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