From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 7 11:34:40 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CD5C37B401 for ; Sat, 7 Jun 2003 11:34:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-138.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.138]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5DC443F85 for ; Sat, 7 Jun 2003 11:34:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (working [172.16.0.95]) h57IYbp7007222; Sat, 7 Jun 2003 14:34:37 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3EE2303D.2040700@potentialtech.com> Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2003 14:34:37 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030429 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Gary W. Swearingen" References: <20030605165217.A388@online.fr> <20030607021309.GC86974@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20030607134841.GA13998@online.fr> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Rahul Siddharthan cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Peeve: why "i386"? X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2003 18:34:40 -0000 Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > Rahul Siddharthan writes: > >>Whoever wrote the front page recognised that many newcomers will read >>"i386" as a pessimisation (eg, will imagine that it doesn't support > > This thread reminds me of the time I tried to get dates like "1991" off > the footers of displayed man pages (e.g., man(1)) for fear of what > newcomers/outsiders might think. Or when I tried to replace some system > programmer's jargon with something newcomers are more apt to understand. > > Which brings to mind a great song from one of the few plays I've seen: > "Tradition!", from "The Fiddler on the Roof". > > Now, tradition has it's good uses, but in too many cases it's just a > cheap excuse for unatractive motives like the desire to remind others of > one's glorious past Now ... I don't think that's completely a bad thing > or the desire to consider others stupid because they > don't understand one's jargon. You know ... the way this year's been going ... about the only good thing I can say is that I've really enjoyed considering other people stupid because they don't understand my jargon. Please don't take that away from me ... once the debt collectors are through ... it'll be all I have left! ... only slightly sarcastic ... -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com