From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 10 15:47: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 410DE1552F for ; Mon, 10 May 1999 15:46:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA01781; Mon, 10 May 1999 15:43:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199905102243.PAA01781@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Brian Handy Cc: Chuck Robey , Bob Willcox , hackers list Subject: Re: Native Applixware for FreeBSD -- When? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 10 May 1999 16:39:20 MDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 15:43:49 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >> Does anybody know the status of this? www.cdrom.com is saying it is > >> scheduled for mid-November and taking pre-orders. Seems its been in > >> this state for quite awhile. What year are they refering to? > > > >When I asked them about 2 weeks ago, they said mid November. Of 2000. > > This is getting out of hand. It's pretty clear none of us understand > what's up behind the scenes on this, because I'd swear the thing could > have been written from scratch in less time than this port is going to > take. You're correct, you don't. But since the last time I looked there was over a GB of data in the Applixware source tree, no, I doubt very much that it could have been written in that timeframe. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message