From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Sep 12 15:21:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA14057 for chat-outgoing; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 15:21:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from news.IAEhv.nl (root@news.IAEhv.nl [194.151.64.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA14049 for ; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 15:20:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from LOCAL (uucp@localhost) by news.IAEhv.nl (8.6.13/1.63) with IAEhv.nl; pid 4333 on Fri, 12 Sep 1997 22:20:57 GMT; id WAA04333 efrom: peter@grendel.IAEhv.nl; eto: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Received: (from peter@localhost) by grendel.IAEhv.nl (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA01125; Sat, 13 Sep 1997 00:14:30 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <19970913001430.20979@grendel.IAEhv.nl> Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 00:14:30 +0200 From: Peter Korsten To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Testimonial References: <19970912010929.22227@wakky.dyn.ml.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.67e In-Reply-To: ; from Chuck Robey on Fri, Sep 12, 1997 at 09:50:48AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Chuck Robey shared with us: > On Fri, 12 Sep 1997, Lee Cremeans wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 11, 1997 at 10:52:56PM -0500, Tom Jackson wrote: > > > > > 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. It's something like the phonebook of one of the more rural phone districts in the Netherlands, but then every month. Hundreds of pages of information - and advertisements, of course. Indeed, it looks like Byte in the old days, even bigger. Byte has become quite pathetic, I must say. No mayor manufacturer had an advertisement in it the last time I looked. It's small, it's not very interesting, it's on the brink of extinction. A sad thing, if that were to happen. I'm not sure, but I think c't means something like 'Computer-Technik' - though they'd normally say 'Komputer'. Perhaps I should check. I believe I have an ancient one with staples lying around somewhere. It had a review of MS Windows 1.0, GEM and TopView, plus a very interesting article on Fourier transformation. Code examples were in Turbo Pascal and Basic. :) > 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. You could also learn German. :) You'd only have get to get used to the rather typical German habit of translating every computer- related word. Ah, well, actually the French even more translate every single word. Come to think of it, only the Dutch don't do this. :) Anyway, the magazine is possibly worth it. - Peter P.S. I read today that Bill Gates finished his dream house. It contains a whole load of technical gadgets, like large TV screens that show your favourite art, movie or whatever. The images move along with you as you move trough the house. Just wondering, would you have your house run NT?