From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jan 21 10:47:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACE5014CFA for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 10:47:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 12Bj5M-000KUO-00; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 18:47:04 +0000 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA29804; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 18:47:04 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 18:47:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick To: Terry Lambert Cc: Jay Nelson , freebsd-chat Subject: Re: funny repair remark In-Reply-To: <200001202107.OAA16183@usr01.primenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Terry Lambert wrote: >The AS/400 is unsuited to running C. It uses a 64 bit pointer, >8 bits of which are a check-value. This means that running C >code that does pointer arithmatic or array indexing would be >nearly impossible with a free compiler. So do AS/400 programmers use proprietary C compilers or do they write in another language? >FreeBSD will benefit, if FreeBSD grabs the opportunities it is >presented; just as FreeBSD has been able to benefit from other >aspects of the Linux phenomenon. The lack of tangible benefit >in past situations is more a FreeBSD problem, than anything else. Could you explain what you mean by the last sentence? What benefits, and to whom? >And then there's a lot of stuff that I can't tell you about, >but which I personally find exciting. Top secret stuff, eh? (: -=> jm <=- Actual penalty by referee in an American Football game: "Unsportsmanlike conduct: giving him the business! Fifteen yard penalty, automatic first down!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message