Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 21:29:02 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Win32 (was:Re: Go SCSI! Big improvement...) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960316210150.2713A-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <199603161831.KAA03892@rah.star-gate.com>
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On Sat, 16 Mar 1996, Amancio Hasty Jr. wrote: > > 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. Many would love not to be forced to *buy* the next version of windows as it comes out with a new load of bugs/inconsistences... It isn't said on the cover of Win95 that it is not the full Win32 but stripped down a bit. > > 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. > I'm not in the US... And I really don't have any resources to develop abything for ISDN - it's not that much available round here, and even if it was, I wouldn't have the money. So I can't help. > Once you are connected to the internet via a high speed link is kind of > hard to have your system Off-Line 8) > The highest speed I have seen coming from a site outside of our Republic is 17Kb/s... > > Amancio > Sander Eat good food, preserve nature, be nice to all nice people :)
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