Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 10:39:44 -0800 (PST) From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: andrews@TECHNOLOGIST.COM (Will Andrews) Cc: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami), ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports INDEX Message-ID: <199912281839.KAA05641@tao.thought.org> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.991228061008.andrews@TECHNOLOGIST.COM> from Will Andrews at "Dec 28, 1999 06:10:08 am"
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According to Will Andrews: > On 28-Dec-99 Satoshi Asami wrote: > > asami 1999/12/28 01:55:57 PST > > > > Modified files: > > . INDEX > > Log: > > New index, with 2,909 ports. This may be the last index of 1,999 (no, > > it's not the last one of the century of the millenium, not by a long > > shot). > > > > And 2,909 is a prime. (How fitting. :) > > I'd be proud if we broke 3,000 by the time 4.0-RELEASE comes out. And I have > the feeling that we will. > > Maybe we'll get 3,011 for another prime, just before the CD burning. ;> > In the mid//late-1980's I read that Sun had around 7,000 ports availahble. This seemed like it made the Suns capable of almost anything the user might want to do, assuming that he had the major $$$$.$$ for these ports. We're not that far from the 7K mark; we ought to have 4 000+ by the turn of the century; that's really getting up there! gary -- Gary D. Kline kline@tao.thought.org Public service uNix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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