Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 23:02:02 -0500 (CDT) From: Jim Bryant <jbryant@argus> To: pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co (Pedro Giffuni) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: question about X.25 drivers Message-ID: <199704140402.XAA08120@argus> In-Reply-To: <33516382.38B7@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> from "Pedro Giffuni" at Apr 13, 97 03:51:53 pm
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In reply: > Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > > Seriously, if something is rotten then it probably needs throwing out, > > not preserving. Things rot for a reason, after all, and without users > > for a feature, what's the point? :-) > > > Somethings get better with years of being rotten (like wine). I am one > of those users that like to run really old things, just to see how "the > age of the wooden computers and the iron programmers" was like :-). > Maybe that's why I still like lynx and gopher (and even OS2). > > Pedro. well, x.25 is not my favorite thing in the world, but i have ulterior motives... to get freebsd out amongst some forward thinking hams... also, of course, to have a kernel level AX.25 interface to my own equipment, it would greatly simplify doing TCP/IP encapsulation... the potential worldwide market for this is incredible... in case you don't know, there are places on this planet that will be lucky to get the internet anytime in the next 20-50 years, but packet radio is aleady there... as a matter of fact, it'll be 20-50 years before the US gets rewired and re-equipped enough to even come close to universal internet coverage... i still know people on mechanical crosspoint switched party lines... not only that, how about the FreeBSD publicity if someone runs packet from a laptop FreeBSD box right after an earthquake, flood, tornado [you get the picture] to assist in disaster communications when there is no phone service, and the local cell pop [avg pop has 20-100 lines] is thrashed by suzie calling mommy or her best friend to say "Oh wow" for the next three hours... such a kernel driver is highly desirable... if there wasn't a market for it, i wouldn't be wasting my time, your time, or the -core's time... gotta run... R0MIR [Mir] passes overhead on a fairly close orbital path in under 10 mins... i'm going to try to get my beacon relayed: KC5VDJ>BEACON,R0MIR*: <UI>:FreeBSD r0X Da W3rLd!@# jim -- All opinions expressed are mine, if you | "I will not be pushed, stamped, think otherwise, then go jump into turbid | briefed, debriefed, indexed, or radioactive waters and yell WAHOO !!! | numbered!" - #1, "The Prisoner" jbryant@tfs.net - KC5VDJ 2-meter, 70cm - KPC-3 Plus packet capable
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