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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
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Subject: Re: realtime clock problem solved
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Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 20:41:43 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: jhb@FreeBSD.ORG (John Baldwin), jkh@bsdi.com (Jordan Hubbard),
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	fujimori@baron.fujimori.cache.waseda.ac.jp (Yoriaki FUJIMORI)
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> > Do you think you could leave the comments in to explain why we are
> > dinking with the year? :)
> 
> I suppose... don't you think it's important to leave things for future
> generations of programmers to puzzle over? Now that I think about it, the only
> mammal with a shorter generation time than programmers is the Black Norway
> rat.... *burp*.... but my mind wanders....

Rattus Norwegicus.

What about Rattus Rattus?

Leaving documentation is much better than leaving a mystery;
consider BSD drivers derived from information in Linux drivers...


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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