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Subject: Re: [CM] Coding with dad on the Dragon 32
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"gareth" <no.spam@thank.you.invalid> wrote in message 
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> "Ahem A Rivet's Shot" <steveo@eircom.net> wrote in message 
> news:20151110182553.00c731ab5506225d47fe656e@eircom.net...
>> On Tue, 10 Nov 2015 18:18:14 +0100
>> Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> Like I explain to my carpenter brother in law; these things are
>>> tools. With windows you get a IKEA drill, which is suited for the
>>> novice user. I need a DeWalt, so I use BSDs and Linux. Mostly
>>> BSDs, actually.
>>
>> Windows - IKEA drill
>> Linux   - DeWalt
>> BSD     - Hilti
>
> The OS that you write for yourself - diamond encrusted and outlives you.

In my case it didn’t, but that was because it was for a PDP9
which hasn’t been viable for a hell of a long time now.