Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 02:00:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (Jonathon McKitrick) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), noslenj@swbell.net (Jay Nelson), chat@freebsd.org (freebsd-chat) Subject: Re: funny repair remark Message-ID: <200001220200.TAA26106@usr09.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001211844300.29673-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> from "Jonathon McKitrick" at Jan 21, 2000 06:47:04 PM
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> >The AS/400 is unsuited to running C. It uses a 64 bit pointer, > >8 bits of which are a check-value. This means that running C > >code that does pointer arithmatic or array indexing would be > >nearly impossible with a free compiler. > > So do AS/400 programmers use proprietary C compilers or do they write > in another language? Proprietary C compilers. > >FreeBSD will benefit, if FreeBSD grabs the opportunities it is > >presented; just as FreeBSD has been able to benefit from other > >aspects of the Linux phenomenon. The lack of tangible benefit > >in past situations is more a FreeBSD problem, than anything else. > > Could you explain what you mean by the last sentence? What benefits, > and to whom? FreeBSD could have had a more visible presence, with banners, at "Windows Refund Day", for example. A more coordinated effort and showing of unity by the community could have been a large press coup that got FreeBSD dragged along with the Linux crowd. As to for whom, for FreeBSD and the FreeBSD community, of course. > >And then there's a lot of stuff that I can't tell you about, > >but which I personally find exciting. > > Top secret stuff, eh? > (: Stuff I get to see or hear about only if I keep my mouth shut about what it is. I don't want to lose washroom rights. 8-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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