From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Jun 10 18:04:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA17967 for isp-outgoing; Tue, 10 Jun 1997 18:04:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mpeks.tomsk.su (mpeks.tomsk.su [193.124.182.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA17897 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 1997 18:03:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by mpeks.tomsk.su (8.6.11/8.6.9) with UUCP id JAA01658; Wed, 11 Jun 1997 09:02:51 +0800 Received: (from vas@localhost) by vas.tomsk.su (8.8.5/8.8.3) id IAA03097; Wed, 11 Jun 1997 08:38:59 +0800 (TSD) From: "Victor A. Sudakov" Message-Id: <199706110038.IAA03097@vas.tomsk.su> Subject: Re: Internet providers discouraging customers from unix To: sderdau@xtdl.com (Stephen A. Derdau) Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 08:38:59 +0800 (TSD) Cc: isp@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Stephen A. Derdau" at "Jun 10, 97 05:32:53 pm" Organization: Tomsk Region Education Department X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Stephen A. Derdau wrote: > O yes os/2 as well......What diffrence should it make to this providers. > As long as their running tcp/ip any os should be acceptable? I can already see the future. Imagine the "Microsoft Internet (R)" and "TCP/IP Designed for Windows 95 (R)". And ISPs will have to be licensed and certified by Microsoft. We shall be the extinct minority with our unices and shall have to support MIP (R) - Microsoft Internet Protocol. Do you think I am kidding? Not quite. Perhaps you know that the standard encoding for cyrillic on the Internet is koi8-r (rfc1489). However, the majority of web pages are in cp1251 - Windows cyrillic encoding ONLY. A couple of weeks ago I had to install Windows cp1251 cyrillic fonts in my X to surf the Russian web. > > Who wants to see a one OS world anyways. :) . Everybody knows the name of this person. -- Victor Sudakov http://www.tomsk.su/r/persons/vas.htm