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to: John Tserkezis
from: Keith Richardson
date: 1997-05-22 21:02:12
subject: pdos + pdpclib

PE>  BTW, is there ANY genuine PD operating systems in the world?
 PE> I think FreeBSD might be half-PD.  What about CPM?

  JT
> I don't know about FreeBSD, many of that type of thing is GNU, as I
 JT
> think they want to ensure it remains free regardless of who gets
 JT
> their hands on it. 

i think that freebsd as such may be pd, but it contains things that aren't.

  JT> CPM is still commercial I think.  Outdated back in the dark ages
 JT> maybe, but still commercial.  I don't know if they made it PD though.

 well the guy who wrote it is dead, and i dont think that digital research
exists anymore, but i suppose that novell may own it as they bought dr.

keith

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