Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 12:19:58 -0500 From: seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach) To: remy@boostworks.com Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Advanced OS Questions only you can answer... Message-ID: <200008221719.MAA12743@guild.plethora.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 22 Aug 2000 19:16:59 %2B0200." <200008221717.TAA23213@luxren2.boostworks.com>
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In message <200008221717.TAA23213@luxren2.boostworks.com>, Remy Nonnenmacher wr ites: >On 22 Aug, Peter Seebach wrote: >> Look, I don't think we want to confuse the kid. It's bad enough that the >> crossways "8 inches" just refers to a standard octet, but the vertical 11 >> inches is a 2^N thing. It's worse still that, on most platforms, the page >> is really 12 or 13 inches. >> I wanted to start him with the easy case. >Rigth. 0.33 meter in processors running in Europe countries. >(Using Metric RAM, or MRAM). Sheesh! The sad thing is, after all the other crap in this thread, he'll think you're joking. -s To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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