From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 16 10:33:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA22813 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 16 Mar 1996 10:33:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [204.188.121.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA22808 for ; Sat, 16 Mar 1996 10:33:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id KAA03892; Sat, 16 Mar 1996 10:31:46 -0800 Message-Id: <199603161831.KAA03892@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.5 12/11/95 To: Narvi cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Win32 (was:Re: Go SCSI! Big improvement...) In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 16 Mar 1996 19:20:47 +0200." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 10:31:45 -0800 From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Two things that can can attract more individuals to FreeBSD: o ability to run Win32 applications -- hows the Willows Project coming along? A few people that I have spoken to have said that if they could run win32 apps they would use freebsd. The funny thing is that I didn't notice a hesitation on their part 8) Another reason, is to attract Win32 application developers to FreeBSD. Perhaps, I am naive however I think that many would love to dump Win3.1 and Win95. o fast internent connection: isdn, adsl, etc... isdn is specially very attractive since it is becoming very popular. It is very hard for me to think of the days in which I was connected to the Net via a 9600 or 14.4baud modem. It sort of reminds me of the 300baud days 8) For many moons now, hackers at least in the US have avoided even thinking about writing ISDN support for FreeBSD. That my friends is a shame. Once you are connected to the internet via a high speed link is kind of hard to have your system Off-Line 8) Amancio