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To: "Mark Murray" <markm@iafrica.com>
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Subject: Re: Paydirt!! 
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Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1996 13:19:26 -0600
From: Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl.com>
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So, like "Mark Murray" was saying to me just the other day:
> On  7 Feb 96 at 10:04, Jon Loeliger wrote:
> 
> > > I have got my company (the largest commercial ISP in za) to agree
> > > to go FreeBSD instead of Linux!
> > 
> > Awesome!  Congratualtions!

Naturally, I meant "Congratulations!"... :-)

> > ps -- Does _Stand_On_Zanzibar_ come to mind? :-)
> 
> Er no? Please enlighten...

Well, it's a John Brunner story from eons ago (1968).  Occasionally
hailed to be on the forefront of cyber-age gone awry, mega-computers
and things-not-quite-right...  Long before Gibson.  Zanzibar is a small
island of the E coast of Africa that gained its independence in 1963.

jdl