From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Sep 12 06:55:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA04719 for chat-outgoing; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 06:55:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from earth.mat.net (root@earth.mat.net [206.246.122.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA04711 for ; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 06:55:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Journey2.mat.net (journey2.mat.net [206.246.122.116]) by earth.mat.net (8.8.7/8.6.12) with SMTP id JAA23234; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 09:50:44 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 09:50:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@Journey2.mat.net To: hcremean@vt.edu cc: Tom Jackson , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Testimonial In-Reply-To: <19970912010929.22227@wakky.dyn.ml.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 12 Sep 1997, Lee Cremeans wrote: > On Thu, Sep 11, 1997 at 10:52:56PM -0500, Tom Jackson wrote: > > [about "ddj"] > > > 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. > > Bah! (What exactly is I20, anyway? I saw some talk about it on > comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc, but...) > > > ps BTW what does c't mean? > > c't is a German computer magazine, sort of like what Byte was in the old > days I believe. And if they'd just come out in translation, from what I've heard, they sure sell one whale of a lot of copies in the US. I'd buy them. > > -- > Lee C. -- Manassas, VA, USA (WakkyMouse on DALnet #watertower) > A! JW223 YWD++^i WK+++r P&B++ SL++^i GDF B&M KK--i MD+++i P++ I++++ Did > $++ E5/10/70/3c/73ac Ee34/1/36 H2 PonPippi Ay77 M | hcremean (at) vt.edu > FreeBSD/Linux/Unix hacker...Win95 and M$ evil! (go see www.freebsd.org) > My home page: http://wakky.dyn.ml.org/~lee | finger me for geek code > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------