From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 2 06:25:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA03445 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 06:25:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from argus.tfs.net (pm3-p19.tfs.net [206.154.183.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA03434 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 06:25:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jbryant@localhost) by argus.tfs.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA01703; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 19:11:21 -0500 (CDT) From: Jim Bryant Message-Id: <199707020011.TAA01703@argus.tfs.net> Subject: Re: Fwd: ANNOUNCE: The 1.44 Mbyte Web Challenge (comp.windows.x.apps) In-Reply-To: from Andrzej Bialecki at "Jul 1, 97 10:30:54 am" To: abial@korin.warman.org.pl (Andrzej Bialecki) Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 19:10:05 -0500 (CDT) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Reply-to: jbryant@tfs.net X-Windows: R00LZ!@# MS-Winbl0wz DR00LZ!@# X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31H (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply: > On Mon, 30 Jun 1997, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > > Apologies if this is off topic, but I found this on the news, and it > > sounds interesting. I haven't been able to try it because the site is > > quite slow from here. > > I tried it - their dealer had this demo on his server in Poland. Well, to > be frank - it's really, really COOOLLL. It's probably impossible with > Xfree86 size to beat this as a whole. > > BUT, perhaps this is a neat idea to make a FreeBSD demo disk, only using > the libdialog instead. Or, to make it a "2,88 Mbyte Web Challenge" for > free Unices. :-) I don't know much about Poland, but I'm the only one I know that even owns a 2.88M floppy drive, and i live in the USA, plus have you ever seen the prices on the blanks? how about this, a single boot floppy, loads in everything into a MFS, then unmounts, and mounts a second application floppy. both floppies being 1.44M. still won't do X, but might be able to do some neet things... jim -- All opinions expressed are mine, if you | "I will not be pushed, stamped, think otherwise, then go jump into turbid | briefed, debriefed, indexed, or radioactive waters and yell WAHOO !!! | numbered!" - #1, "The Prisoner" jbryant@tfs.net - KC5VDJ 2M, 70cm, KPC-3+ - kc5vdj@wv0t.#neks.ks.usa.noam