From: black.hole.4.spam{at}gmail.com (Don Hills)

In article , "Rich"  wrote:
>   The early IBM PCs worked without an OS so you are fishing to switch
>the standard from the PC.

The only fishy part is you doing your standard red herring drag.

>The history is irrelevant as the standard is
>what it is and according to mike miller, linux and the BSDs fail to
>follow it.

"History is irrelevant"? "The standard is what it (happens
to be at the moment)"?   No wonder we're in the mess we're discussing.

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