From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 1 01:02:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA08543 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 01:02:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA08538 for ; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 01:02:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) by nlsystems.com (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA02938; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 09:01:23 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 09:01:22 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: John Polstra , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Today is E-day In-Reply-To: <15123.904610108@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Everybody, please give a big round of net-applause for John Birrell. > > He has saved our butts on this one. We wouldn't have made it to ELF > > for 3.0 if he hadn't stepped in. The hardest thing in any project > > is to _finish_ it. John B. rose to that challenge and never even > > blinked, as far as I could tell. > > He was a substantial force in jump-starting the ALPHA port as well, > for that matter. All hail John Birrell, champion of stalled causes! :-) > > Seriously, I'd also like to join John in thanking, erm, John for > his efforts. Absolutely. I probably wouldn't have started porting the kernel without being shamed by John's work on the userland. Thanks John! -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 Fax: +44 181 381 1039 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message