From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jan 31 02:22:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA08765 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 02:22:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA08740 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 02:21:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id LAA12994 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 11:21:25 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id LAA10257 for freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 11:21:24 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id KAA20475 for freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 10:52:04 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199601310952.KAA20475@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Memory configuration of ftp.cdrom.com To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 10:52:04 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199601310425.OAA22647@orion.devetir.qld.gov.au> from "Stephen McKay" at Jan 31, 96 02:25:26 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk As Stephen McKay wrote: > > Still, should I quibble over this when I can still buy cans of food marked > 450gm. Gram metres must be useful for something, but not measuring food. :-) That's about the same as measuring times in millisiemens (mS, unit of electrical conductivity). :-) Oh, let's discuss us things like "mil" (1/1000 inch) now... :-)) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)