From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Dec 15 11:21:31 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA12232 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 15 Dec 1995 11:21:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from etinc.com (et-gw.etinc.com [165.254.13.209]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA12224 for ; Fri, 15 Dec 1995 11:21:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from trumpet.etnet.com (trumpet.etnet.com [129.45.17.35]) by etinc.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id OAA13892; Fri, 15 Dec 1995 14:39:15 -0500 Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1995 14:39:15 -0500 Message-Id: <199512151939.OAA13892@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 2.0.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) From: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) Subject: Re: Hubbard's article in BYTE Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >In article <4aqced$alc@interport.net>, >David Tay wrote: >>Loved the article in FreeBSD. Very well written. > >Thanks - and no kisses necessary! I did it just to spread the word a >little wider and, if others would like to join this emerging trend >by mobbing other magazines with FreeBSD article submissions, I would >not mind at all! For the first person to get into Dr. Dobbs or >PC Magazine, in fact, my own lips are puckered and waiting. :-) > >>I do have one question, though. In the article, you said that one should >>add 16mb of RAM for every 10 simultaenous FTP sessions. If that's true, >>then how does ftp.cdrom.com squeeze 400 users into an 128mb machine? > >Unfortunately, I didn't say this. My editor did. :-( They also made >up the interesting new term of "ISP Pentium", which made my hair stand >straight up when I saw it. :( Perhaps DELL will play ball by actually >making one now and I won't have to feel so bad! :) > Hopefully, the rumors of "what a memory hog" FreeBSD is won't spred too quickly...... I wrote an article about X.25 for (the now defunct) Mini-Microsystems years ago and when it came back from the editor I was stunned at the lies that they had created from the truths that I had submitted...luckily I corrected them and it was printed after my approval. What most concerned me was that if I had wriiten that the Earth revolved around Pluto they would have printed it.....as they had no-one on staff that could understand the technical details of what I had written. Since then, I only look at the pictures in technical magazines....... dennis ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Emerging Technologies, Inc. http://www.etinc.com Synchronous Communications Cards and Routers For Discriminating Tastes. 56k to T1 and beyond. Frame Relay, PPP, HDLC, and X.25