From: "der Mouse" <mouse at rodents.montreal.qc.ca>
Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 11:28 PM
You are making life difficult if to don't have a
tool for reading
PDF files. I think you can buy a nice one for a few hundred
dollars.
You can buy a used PC for tens of dollars.
Including the monitor and the license fees for all the necessary bits
of software? And including someone to be its sysadmin? I'm certainly
not about to baby along a machine running closed-source software.
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PC's can run either open source or closed source OS's. I don't know of any
classic computer that came out with open source DOS's (but a few open source
monitors).
Today CP/M source is available but in the 70's it was only available via
disassembled source or very expensive licensing with non-disclosure
agreements from DRI.
How many open source OS's were available in the 70's or earlier?
When did Zsys come out?
How many people on this list have always dealt with open source systems?
Randy
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