From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 17 17:57:20 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id RAA03028 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 17 Jul 1995 17:57:20 -0700 Received: from spooky.rwwa.com (rwwa.com [198.115.177.3]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA03022 for ; Mon, 17 Jul 1995 17:57:18 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spooky.rwwa.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id VAA11099 for ; Mon, 17 Jul 1995 21:03:12 -0400 Message-Id: <199507180103.VAA11099@spooky.rwwa.com> X-Authentication-Warning: spooky.rwwa.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol X-Mailer: exmh version 1.5.3 12/28/94 To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TCL vs... In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 17 Jul 1995 12:38:21 PDT." <199507171938.MAA03709@rah.star-gate.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 21:03:12 -0400 From: Robert Withrow Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > >>> Peter da Silva said: > > > The "FreeBSD killer app" syndrome smells like technology for the > > > sake of technology. > > > > Quite the contrary. It's a challenge to that mindset. > > Sorry I don't consider this a challenge at all. > What will end users do with FreeBSD? > So lets see, hack on device drivers, VM systems, add new system calls, etc.. Well, in my company's case, they use it to measure and manufacture jet engines...In a nifty integrated yet distributed way... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Withrow, Tel: +1 617 598 4480, Fax: +1 617 598 4430 Net: witr@rwwa.COM R.W. Withrow Associates, 319 Lynnway Suite 201, Lynn MA 01901 USA