Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 19:10:05 -0500 (CDT) From: Jim Bryant <jbryant@argus.tfs.net> To: abial@korin.warman.org.pl (Andrzej Bialecki) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fwd: ANNOUNCE: The 1.44 Mbyte Web Challenge (comp.windows.x.apps) Message-ID: <199707020011.TAA01703@argus.tfs.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970701101628.1697B-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> from Andrzej Bialecki at "Jul 1, 97 10:30:54 am"
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In reply: > On Mon, 30 Jun 1997, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > > Apologies if this is off topic, but I found this on the news, and it > > sounds interesting. I haven't been able to try it because the site is > > quite slow from here. > > I tried it - their dealer had this demo on his server in Poland. Well, to > be frank - it's really, really COOOLLL. It's probably impossible with > Xfree86 size to beat this as a whole. > > BUT, perhaps this is a neat idea to make a FreeBSD demo disk, only using > the libdialog instead. Or, to make it a "2,88 Mbyte Web Challenge" for > free Unices. :-) I don't know much about Poland, but I'm the only one I know that even owns a 2.88M floppy drive, and i live in the USA, plus have you ever seen the prices on the blanks? how about this, a single boot floppy, loads in everything into a MFS, then unmounts, and mounts a second application floppy. both floppies being 1.44M. still won't do X, but might be able to do some neet things... jim -- All opinions expressed are mine, if you | "I will not be pushed, stamped, think otherwise, then go jump into turbid | briefed, debriefed, indexed, or radioactive waters and yell WAHOO !!! | numbered!" - #1, "The Prisoner" jbryant@tfs.net - KC5VDJ 2M, 70cm, KPC-3+ - kc5vdj@wv0t.#neks.ks.usa.noam
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