Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:36:29 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Paul Shi <shihang@hkusua.hku.hk> Subject: Re: Setup FTP service on FreeBSD 2.0.5? Message-ID: <4B4491DD.6070909@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <19268.36322.616410.897087@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <ea6713a21001060220o77a6c065o5e188b9e8d408e43@mail.gmail.com> <4B446819.8050701@infracaninophile.co.uk> <ea6713a21001060503g1ad9028dvaa55bec0332dd65@mail.gmail.com> <19268.36322.616410.897087@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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Robert Huff wrote:
> Hello:
>=20
>> The thing concerns me is exact the question you asked in the
>> first place: Does FreeBSD 2.0.5 even have any support for
>> wireless networking devices? Because I cannot find any reference
>> it. I am wondering if anyone in this mailing list has a answer to
>> this question. And I am just curious to see how people made
>> wireless network back in 1990s.
>=20
> I believe the answer would be "No.". The first mention I can
> find of wireless adapters in the release notes is for 3.3, in late
> 1998.
Wireless networking in the mid-90's would have been a very new thing,
at least as a consumer item. It's about then that the very first mobile
phones came out -- those were as big a brick and had about an hour's batt=
ery
life.=20
Much of the computing world was running 10baseT thin-wire ethernet, and
although 100baseT Cat5 kit was available, it was pretty expensive. The
WWW had only just become popular -- it was around '93 that it started to=
make the big-time. Most home connectivity was via acoustically coupled
modems running at 96Kbaud if you were lucky. 48Kbaud probably more common=
[*].
Oh, and 8 MB RAM or 1 GB Hard disk was considered quite big...
Cheers,
Matthew
[*] The Beeb was still using that modem-handshaking sound clip as an aura=
l
clue that the subject of an item was 'computers' even up to a year or so
ago.
--=20
Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard
Flat 3
PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate
Kent, CT11 9PW
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