Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 12:27:40 +0100 (BST) From: Stephen Roome <steve@visint.co.uk> To: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: talk (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980520122326.2631I-100000@dylan.visint.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <3562A574.CE34E6EA@tdx.co.uk>
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On Wed, 20 May 1998, Karl Pielorz wrote: > Is it me or is basically everyone here either a) Not a big fan of Intel > (strange considering what FreeBSD runs on ;-) I would hazard a guess that the people who subscribe to hackers have more knowledge about what's actually in the box. Does that answer it ? Besides Intel now own the StrongARM, so we can forget than ever being used for anything more than a Washing Machine. ;) > b) Prefers the Motorola? (I certainly do!), and / or c) Largely used to own, > program, hack on Amiga's? - or at least want FreeBSD to work as well as the > Amiga did <g> Hey, there were lots of platforms other than Amiga's, how about Atari's, the ST didn't do too bad for a while. In the UK Acorns were quite nice and at the time the IBM AT came out the ZX81 was a possible competitor. If you watch the industry for too long how can you like it when the worst contender wins just by better marketing. It's sort of sad. > All way off topic but interesting following - maybe we should start > 'nostalgia-freebsd' mailing list? <G> Good point, I'll shut up now, but I cc'd to chat instead of hackers. Steve Steve Roome - Vision Interactive Ltd. Tel:+44(0)117 9730597 Home:+44(0)976 241342 WWW: http://dylan.visint.co.uk/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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