From: ortmann@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Mathias Ortmann) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: Why not pOS Date: Sat, 06 Sep 1997 18:02:15 GMT Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften Lines: 32 Message-ID: <5us5nv$ah9@arcadia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: dial009.lrz-muenchen.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.5/32.451 Path: 195.95.96.10!news.unisource.be!news.att-unisource.net!newsfeed.mad.ibernet.es!uunet!in4.uu.net!208.215.58.10!news.phoenixgroup.com!uunet!in3.uu.net!128.230.129.112!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntprelay.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!informatik.tu-muenchen.de!lrz-muenchen.de!news.informatik.uni-muenchen.de!usenet damocles@nostromo.gate.net (Randy Vice) wrote: >o> peterk@combo.ganesha.com (Dr. Peter Kittel) wrote: > >o> >But these UNIX descendants are completely different under the surface >o> >from AmigaOS. You need a CS major to cope with them or administer them. > >o> A doctor's degree in physics is insufficient to cope with or administer >o> Linux? Or is it the doctor rather than the degree that is responsible in >o> our specific case? > >o> Just wondering... > >Mathias, > >Dude, what is your personal beef with PIOS and the individual employees of >PIOS? Did one of them run over your dog or something? If you want to be >critical of PIOS for their delays of the TransAM release, fine, welcome to the >club with us who check our Email for news of it's release on a daily level. >Your acting if it's of a personal vendetta against PIOS, and now the >employees. What's up with that? You may not know this, but I've been asked similar questions after posting some phase5-related sarcasm in the past. Actually, I neither care about what company Dr. Peter Kittel works for, nor do I hate him in any way (by the way, I've met him in person a couple of weeks ago and got along with him really well, although I might not have survived if I had mentioned my name). -- Mathias Ortmann ortmann@informatik.tu-muenchen.de UAE 0.6.9 Win32/DirectX @ http://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~ortmann/uae/