From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 29 16:48:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA07961 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 16:48:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cimlogic.com.au (cimlog.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.51.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA07828 for ; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 16:47:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jb@cimlogic.com.au) Received: (from jb@localhost) by cimlogic.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.7) id JAA23350; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 09:49:17 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from jb) From: John Birrell Message-Id: <199804292349.JAA23350@cimlogic.com.au> Subject: Re: SIGDANGER In-Reply-To: from Snob Art Genre at "Apr 29, 98 05:13:55 pm" To: benedict@echonyc.com (Snob Art Genre) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 09:49:16 +1000 (EST) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, conrad@apple.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, tlambert@primenet.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Snob Art Genre wrote: > Since I was 7 years old at the time, could someone please tell me what a > PC RT is, and for that matter what color is an ACIS? ;-) It looked (looks, I still have a client with one 8-) like an IBM PC and runs about as slow as one. People would be heard to ask: "Is it actually doing _anything_?!". I think that SIGDANGER was actually intended as a "Warning Will Robinson, you'll put your back out if you lift this". The idea being to prevent little people (like me) from attempting to do things that they'll regret, like trying to find out if it _was_ doing anything - which it usually was. The problem they had was getting the SIGDANGER signal out of the box with adequate warning to the guy with the screw driver. This was before computers could talk. So they discontinued production to reduce the work health insurance claims. 8-) -- 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-hackers" in the body of the message