Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Sat, 24 Jul 1999 07:47:31 +1000 (EST)
From:      John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>
To:        cjc26@cornell.edu (a disembodied voice emerging from the chaos of reality)
Cc:        ragnar@sysabend.org (Jamie Bowden), des@flood.ping.uio.no (Dag-Erling Smorgrav), grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey), chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: UNIX, Darwin, NT (was: Installing Linux (was: Sanity regained -- back with the best))
Message-ID:  <199907232147.HAA42726@cimlogic.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907230941180.3600-100000@tankgrrl> from a disembodied voice emerging from the chaos of reality at "Jul 23, 1999 09:43:23 am"

index | next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail

a disembodied voice emerging from the chaos of reality wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Jamie Bowden wrote:
> 
> | :> : Have you noticed that people have been very quiet about the real
> | :> : connection between UNIX and Darwin NT?
> | :> Alright, what is Darwin NT?  I don't do Windows, so enlighten me.
> | :
> | :Look it up in an atlas :)
> | 
> | So you are talking about Darwin, Australia, which I figured.  Seeing where
> | in .au it was located however cleared things up, thanks.
> 
> Ok, this entire thread has left me VERY confused..Darwin's the capital of
> Northern Territories, fine, I knew that, but what's that got to do with
> UNIX?  The only thing I can think of is the open-source OS from Apple..?

They held a UNIX conference there. Surprise #1. And Greg went. Surprise #2.
But, as the tourist adverts say, "you'll never ever know, if you never
ever go" (or something like that 8-).  <http://www.nttc.com.au/>;

-- 
John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/
CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message



help

Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199907232147.HAA42726>