From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Sep 12 06:54:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA04645 for chat-outgoing; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 06:54:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rvc1.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de (rvc1.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de [141.31.112.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA04628 for ; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 06:54:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from helbig@localhost) by rvc1.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id PAA26969; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 15:49:45 +0200 (MET DST) From: Wolfgang Helbig Message-Id: <199709121349.PAA26969@rvc1.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> Subject: Re: Testimonial In-Reply-To: <19970911225256.12801@my.domain> from Tom Jackson at "Sep 11, 97 10:52:56 pm" To: toj@gorilla.net (Tom Jackson) Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 15:49:39 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL30 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > On Sat, Sep 06, 1997 at 08:42:32PM -0400, Lee Cremeans wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 06, 1997 at 03:15:17PM +0200, Wolfgang Helbig wrote: > > > > Check out News & Views section in the Oct copy of ddj. It will ring your > > > > bell! > > > > > > What is ddj? > > > > I would guess Dr. Dobb's Journal. > > > Yes, I'm sorry, it is. The snippet gives kudos to FreeBSD, using Walnut > Creek and Yahoo as shining examples of its power and efficiency but then > goes on to lament the possible conspiracy of Gates Wm and Intel with I20 > to squeeze out people such as us on x86 systems. God forbid. > > Tom > > ps BTW what does c't mean? ``computer technik'', a monthly computer magazine with broad coverage of different systems, among others *BSD: Lars Köller, Andreas Klemm, If you're going to San Francisco, Die freien BSD-Varianten von Unix, c't 4/97, S. 368 Andreas Klemm, Vom PC zur Workstation, Die neue Version 2.2.1 von FreeBSD, c't 6/97, S. 276 The URL is http://www.heise.de. In the "News" there is a little note about an AMD K6 bug. (causing gcc crash on about one out of ten Linux-Kernel-Compilation. It only happens if you have more then 32MB of RAM. It does not show on play systems like M$-OSs.) Wolfgang