From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat May 23 17:56:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA00481 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 23 May 1998 17:56:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from crimson.protovision (root@p142-02.ppp.get2net.dk [195.82.206.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA29986 for ; Sat, 23 May 1998 17:55:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stjerneby@usa.net) Received: from usa.net (bwulf@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by crimson.protovision (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA00344; Sun, 24 May 1998 02:55:19 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from stjerneby@usa.net) Message-ID: <35675A35.EA27C020@usa.net> Date: Sun, 24 May 1998 01:22:29 +0200 From: Sune Stjerneby Reply-To: stjerneby@usa.net Organization: Organised, me? X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Karl Pielorz CC: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: talk (fwd) References: <3562A574.CE34E6EA@tdx.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Karl Pielorz wrote: > > Is it me or is basically everyone here either a) Not a big fan of Intel > (strange considering what FreeBSD runs on ;-) Certainly. I for one have never been a fan of Intel, and wouldn't be running x86 if there wasn't a decent BSD implementation available (luckily there are 5-6 =). > b) Prefers the Motorola? (I certainly do!), and / or c) Largely used to own, > program, hack on Amiga's? - or at least want FreeBSD to work as well as the > Amiga did Certainly. It has been said, that had the original IBM PC design used the MC68000 (which was available at that time), the world would look very different by now. It will be a cold day in hell before i scrap my m68k-machines (Amigas etc., which all run NetBSD). > All way off topic but interesting following - maybe we should start > 'nostalgia-freebsd' mailing list? Folklore and nostalgia is usually enjoyable. -- //bwulf - Sune Stjerneby , [2:238/260.4], ++45 56219988, DK-208, EU -- "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur." -- "4.4BSD UNIX - A Real Operating System for Real Users." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message