From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Jun 26 08:47:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA27783 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 08:47:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from uhura.concentric.net (uhura.concentric.net [206.173.119.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA27693 for ; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 08:46:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mlduke@concentric.net) Received: from cliff.concentric.net (cliff [206.173.119.90]) by uhura.concentric.net (8.8.8/(98/05/18 5.10)) id LAA20154; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 11:46:24 -0400 (EDT) [1-800-745-2747 The Concentric Network] Received: from mlduke (ts002d16.mer-id.concentric.net [206.173.184.52]) by cliff.concentric.net (8.8.8) id LAA16121; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 11:46:22 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3593C35A.5EC0@concentric.net> Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 09:50:51 -0600 From: ML Duke Reply-To: mlduke@concentric.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: fewtch@serv.net CC: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, Patrick Hyland Subject: Re: Reference: Unix in 20-30 years References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Tim Gerchmez wrote: > > On 26-Jun-98 ML Duke wrote: Interesting. Your comments focused entirely upon the unimportant part of the issue raised. Is it possibly you missed it? The point is, think Y2K and visit: http://www.garynorth.com ML Duke > > Indeed, Unix is for the inquiring mind. Those in search of stability. > > A kernel that does not allocate equal time to idle applications. Its > > actually somewhat difficult for a single user with over 8 megs of ram to > > keep the cpu busy if its over 486/66. > > I'll tell you one thing - I'm getting addicted to it! I find myself drifting > away from the DOS/Windows environments for the first time since 1987. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message