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Date:      Sat, 11 Apr 1998 21:07:40 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Christopher R. Bowman" <crb@ChrisBowman.com>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        Mark Mayo <mark@vmunix.com>, kris@airnet.net, David Shanes <dshanes@personalogic.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Fw: Your Article "Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet" 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980411210320.264A-100000@quark.ChrisBowman.com>
In-Reply-To: <12130.892266950@time.cdrom.com>

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On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

>These are great points - you want to write up a paper on "getting
>FreeBSD into academic environments" and I'll print it in the
>newsletter?  Seriously, the points you've made are too useful to see
>just vanish into the mailing list archives..
>
>						Jordan

I'll tell you where FreeBSD really shined for me.  When I was designing
my last two VLSI chips for a course I took at the University of Maryland.

My PPro 200 ran Magic, Spice and IRSIM faster than the Sparc 5s at school
that we were using.  Set up from the ports system was unbelievably easy
and when you are spending 16 and 18 hours a day working on a chip design
that absolutely has to be out by Monday.  Not haveing to drive into
school to work in the lab, not haveing to log out, and leave the lab to
pee or eat, and risk loosing your workstation because everyone else has
to get their final exam projects in, can really save your but.

---------
Christopher R. Bowman
crb@ChrisBowman.com
<A HREF="http://www.ChrisBowman.com">My home page</A>


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