From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 31 09:45:57 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA20433 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 09:45:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from border.com (mail.border.com [199.71.190.98]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA20424 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 09:45:47 -0800 (PST) Received: by janus.border.com id <20485>; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 12:52:16 -0500 Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 12:45:17 -0500 From: Jerry Kendall To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Mark Hittinger , hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Hackers ages In-Reply-To: <4920.823105169@critter.tfs.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Message-Id: <96Jan31.125216est.20485@janus.border.com> Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 31 Jan 1996, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > I guess I barely make it into the "adults only" section here, I have > less than 2 weeks experience in being a "Thirty-something" :-) > > Judging from the people I have met, it seems like FreeBSD is composed > of a large fraction of "grown-up" hackers, and that could easily explain > the uncommonly strong focus we have on stability and performance. > > The funny thing is that most of us were more interested in ice-cream > and soda-pop when UNIX was started... > soda-pop AKA: fast and efficient ice-cream AKA: small and lean butterscotch topping AKA: reliable and rock solid Therefore, soda-pop and ice-cream with butterscotch topping is what we all want. Still!!!! Ah, it IS nice to be young "grown-up" and a hacker too. FreeBSD, well that just makes it all worth while. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Any comments or opinions in this message are my own and may or may not reflect the comments or opinions of my present or previous employers. Jerry Kendall Border Network Technologies Inc. System Software Engineer Tel +1-416-368-7157 ext 303 jerry@border.com Fax +1-416-368-7178