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From: Anthony Graphics <agl@mac.glas.apc.org>
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To: dennis <dennis@et.htp.com>
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Subject: Re: Case for FreeBSD presentation docs?
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On Tue, 18 Apr 1995, dennis wrote:

> Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 20:07:45 -0400
> From: dennis <dennis@et.htp.com>
> To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu
> Cc: hsu@freefall.cdrom.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org
> Subject: Re: Case for FreeBSD presentation docs?
> 
> 
> Something that might help in your case against LINUX......
> 
> We have recently announced a full suite of serial support for FreeBSD. Our
> high performance serial controllers run up to T1 speeds (V.35, RS-449) and
> we support
> Cisco Serial Protocol, PPP, X.25 and Frame Relay. There is no comparable
                                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^       
> product for LINUX (the Linux people have been swamping us with requests, but
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> we wanted to use FreeBSD internally because we think it is a much 
better > product). WAN networking is VERY important these days.
> 

What good in the absence of the Linux support? The scope of the usage
would be lower, what's so nice about it?
AGL
> 
> Dennis
> Emerging Technologies, Inc.
> 
>