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LoverOfLiberty

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23. As I said

Reply to hunter (Reply #17)

Fri Aug 12, 2016, 10:24 PM

Aug 2016

I've been working on computers since the early 80s.

If Unix and all of its flavors was so superior, why are the overwhelming majority of computers not running it?

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