From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 19 18:23:44 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id SAA10761 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 19 Sep 1995 18:23:44 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA10716 for ; Tue, 19 Sep 1995 18:22:31 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id LAA20926; Wed, 20 Sep 1995 11:06:38 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199509200136.LAA20926@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Policy on printf format specifiers? To: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl (Wilko Bulte) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 11:06:37 +0930 (CST) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, hsu@cs.hut.fi, bakul@netcom.com, freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199509191704.TAA00933@yedi.iaf.nl> from "Wilko Bulte" at Sep 19, 95 07:04:21 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 777 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Wilko Bulte stands accused of saying: > Or alternatively of Ken Olsen (founder of Digital Equipment Corp) who > upon seeing the first Microvax with 70Mb disk said: "Why would > anyone ever want such a big disk on this machine?" You obviously have never used an MVI 8) I can't see why anyone would want anything more than the RX80 (RX81?) twin-spindle floppy on one of those abortions. > Wilko -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[