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In article <Cy5B7J.J4o@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk "Jeff Dalton" writes:

> Like it or not, a port to FreeBSD, NetBSD, 386BSD, or Linux
> would be vastly more useful to me and many like me.

I agree with this. Most people who will use NT will be paid to use it
and some language other than Lisp. Most people using Linux will be free
to chose which language to use. This is a generalisation, but it's based
on reasonable information, like job adverts. I've yet to see _any_ for
Linux programmers/users, while I've seen endless ads for jobs requiring
experience with NT.
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