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From: phil@rivendell.apana.org.au (Phil Homewood)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: How UTTERLY Amazing! (Was Re: FreeBSD vs NetBSD)
Date: 12 Oct 1994 16:27:20 +1000
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Jesus Monroy Jr (jmonroy@netcom.com) wrote:
: Boy, we want this on thick ...Today!
OK... I shall attempt to phrase this post in "thick" so Jesus can
understand it.
: You haven't made a release to claim that on... even
: less you can't claim to have it operational.
muahaha! Hm.. Free2.0 is available for beta-testing I believe...
... as for 386bsd 1.0... hm....
Oh.. sorry, phrasing:
Duh, yes we have. Duh, no you haven't. Duh, shaddap!
: And let's say you have a *current* version and it
: hobbles on a few select machines, there is no chance
: in hell you can convince me that the *whole* 386bsd
: code tree has been eliminated...
Duh, have you seen 386bsd 1.0 hobble on any (select) machines yet?
: Oxymoron in action.....
Duh, "386bsd 1.0 release"... oxymoron... moron... mmmm...
: Here is the premise.... if you write (or talk) about
: your software, describe it to someone else, then perhaps
: it was thought out well and works well.
Or perhaps, umm, like duh, you just know the concepts but have no idea
of implementation... whoa, big words, sorry....
: By your description, we are lead to assume that
: one has greater value than the other... your oxymoron.
Give me a working hack over a utopian pie-in-the-sky concept anyday.
(this is not to accuse Free2.0 of being a hack in any way !!)
: Amazing sense of logic..... can I please have a
: chicken on the rocks.
Certainly sir. Would you like 386bsd 1.0 with that? (oh sorry.. we
don't have any....but I can give you the wrapper...)
: : We've already flamed this issue to death.
: No we haven't.
while(jesus) flame(jesus);
: --
: Jesus Monroy Jr jmonroy@netcom.com
: Zebra Research
: /386BSD/device-drivers /fd /qic /clock /documentation /duh/what?
: ___________________________________________________________________________
Phil.
--
Phil Homewood phil@rivendell.apana.org.au
APANA Brisbane Regional Co-Ordinator brisbane@apana.org.au
"It's a small world and it smells funny,
I'd buy another if it wasnt for the money"