From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jul 23 15:59:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27949156D8 for ; Fri, 23 Jul 1999 15:59:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id IAA06351; Sat, 24 Jul 1999 08:28:40 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id IAA41758; Sat, 24 Jul 1999 08:28:40 +0930 (CST) Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 08:28:40 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: a disembodied voice emerging from the chaos of reality Cc: Jamie Bowden , Dag-Erling Smorgrav , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: UNIX, Darwin, NT (was: Installing Linux (was: Sanity regained -- back with the best)) Message-ID: <19990724082840.Z84734@freebie.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from a disembodied voice emerging from the chaos of reality on Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 09:43:23AM -0400 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Friday, 23 July 1999 at 9:43:23 -0400, a disembodied voice emerging from the chaos of reality wrote: > On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Jamie Bowden wrote: > >>>>> Have you noticed that people have been very quiet about the real >>>>> connection between UNIX and Darwin NT? >>>> Alright, what is Darwin NT? I don't do Windows, so enlighten me. >>> >>> Look it up in an atlas :) >> >> So you are talking about Darwin, Australia, which I figured. Seeing where >> in .au it was located however cleared things up, thanks. > > Ok, this entire thread has left me VERY confused..Darwin's the capital of > Northern Territories, There's only one Northern Territory. > fine, I knew that, but what's that got to do with UNIX? The Australian UNIX User Group (AUUG) has a chapter there, and they had a conference last week. I went there and did a whole-day FreeBSD workshop. > The only thing I can think of is the open-source OS from Apple..? You might like to know that I looked at a detailed map of NT, and I'm now able to confirm that in all probability Microsoft NT does not exist. If it does, it's so small as to be completely insignificant. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message