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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!noc.near.net!lobster.sid.mcet.edu!lobster.sid.mcet.edu!johnj From: johnj@lobster.sid.mcet.edu (John Jackson) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: Re: SHARED LIBRARIES - THE END Date: 24 May 1993 12:21:52 GMT Organization: MCET - Massachusetts Corporation for Educational Telecommunications Lines: 28 Message-ID: <1tqel1$3hm@lobster.sid.mcet.edu> References: <hastyC7Hw1t.240@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lobster.sid.mcet.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8] Amancio Hasty Jr (hasty@netcom.com) wrote: : Got to admit we are earning a notorious reputation so those who : wish to have 386bsd alive support your developers. Sometimes : a little encouragement note is all what we need during : hard times. This is CERTAINLY something that *I* can do! I'm not much of a programmer but words can't capture how absolutely great it is having 386BSD available. I am using it as a News server, as our Internet gateway via SLIP at 38400bps (I just decided that I'd ignore the silo overflows and it's worked perfectly :-)), as a POP and central email server, as a MicroMuse server and as just a plain old host for people to log in to and do regular old kinds of unix terminal things. We're not using the X stuff in our office (yet) but I have been using it at home on my PC (Thanks Amancio!). To all who have helped to make any of the 386bsd and related stuff happen in any way, large or small, THANK YOU! God, it was just impossible to really do all these things in real life before unless you had true unix workstation equipment. We have yet to get some. We are just using a 486/33 machine w/16MB of RAM and lots of disk space locally and via NFS (ala our Netware 3.11 server :-)). Esix? SCO? Interactive? Etc.? Forget it... Somehow, some way, for whatever reason, something would be missing. Either it wasn't available for the o/s or it cost an arm and a leg. Anyway, thanks to everyone again and I'll still be one of the greatful sys admins/end users as more stuff continues to come out! -John Jackson