From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 16 21:10:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id VAA22764 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 16 Mar 1996 21:10:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.think.com (Mail1.Think.COM [131.239.33.245]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA22759 for ; Sat, 16 Mar 1996 21:10:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from Early-Bird-1.Think.COM by mail.think.com; Sun, 17 Mar 96 00:10:07 -0500 Received: from compound (fergus-29.dialup.cfa.org) by Early-Bird.Think.COM; Sun, 17 Mar 96 00:10:04 EST Received: (from alk@localhost) by compound (8.6.12/8.6.112) id XAA16862; Sat, 16 Mar 1996 23:10:48 -0600 Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 23:10:48 -0600 Message-Id: <199603170510.XAA16862@compound> From: Tony Kimball To: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199603170357.TAA20448@freefall.freebsd.org> (owner-hackers-digest@freefall.freebsd.org) Subject: Re: hackers-digest V1 #986 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Digest reply... From: BTW: I am looking around for ADSL modems anyone knows where I can get two cheap ones! PairGain claims their 2d generation models will be out in June/July "between $600 and $1000". This is the "Etherphone" model. With two of these and a dry pair, I should get 4Mb/s downloads and 640Kb/s uploads through my ISP. ISDN is obsolete. From: Ok, ok - I'll try to do what I can. I have a feeling I will learn many things I haven't otherwise. Could some just fish out a reference to a real RDBMS (no toys - I mean something like Oracle, Gupta, Informix, etc.) running on FreeBSD so that I would not have to throw it out of my server and replace it with Windows NT or OS/2 when the money for the database arrives (and it will). Postgres95. It's free, so you can have it in place and in production *before* the money comes. Fait accompli. http://s2k-ftp.CS.Berkeley.EDU:8000/postgres95/ From: Variable references are plain old variable references. Why is GCC so complicated? Because it is portable.