Re: 5th message - is Microsoft going to post a welcome message?
From: Jeremy Winston (winston_at_cat.RIP.edu)
Date: 05/07/03
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Date: Wed, 07 May 2003 09:27:28 -0400
Keith W. McCammon wrote:
>>Or did the sysadmin do an "rm -rf *" by mistake?
>
> An interesting and ironic hypothesis. Microsoft using BSD to run their
> newsgroups :)
Well, there *is* a precedent; IIRC, MS's Hotmail is (was?) run on
FreeBSD and Solaris.
OTOH, there are plenty of ports of the *nix tools to W32.
E.g., I am using the GNU sh-utils, v2.3, on W2K.
-Jeremy
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