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Xref: sserve alt.folklore.computers:72807 comp.os.386bsd.misc:5255 comp.os.linux.misc:34847 comp.os.os2.advocacy:78111 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!library.ucla.edu!nnrp.info.ucla.edu!news.ucla.edu!eijkhout From: eijkhout@jacobi.math.ucla.edu (Victor Eijkhout) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy Subject: Re: Linux thoroughly insulted by Infoworld! Date: 07 Feb 1995 10:57:13 GMT Organization: UCLA Math Department Lines: 16 Message-ID: <EIJKHOUT.95Feb7025713@jacobi.math.ucla.edu> References: <950116203411@lambada> <D2L1xn.xy@denix.elk.miles.com> <3fusq3$1cu7@whale.st.usm.edu> <3fv5jm$ie6@plato.simons-rock.edu> <3g862c$3mu@supreme.pcug.org.au> <5fKBnEpjcsB@khms.westfalen.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: jacobi.math.ucla.edu In-reply-to: kai@khms.westfalen.de's message of 06 Feb 1995 21:28:00 +0100 In article <5fKBnEpjcsB@khms.westfalen.de> kai@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen) writes: > You mean those things (can you really call them cars?) that, after an > accident, are reduced to a heap of plastic rubble (with sharp edges)? :-) The very same. Their max speed, btw, is approx equal to the legal min speed on European highways, so you find them there, doing in general at least 30mph less than the rest of traffic, thereby causing much flipping of middle fingers and pointing at foreheads :-) -- Victor Eijkhout Department of Mathematics, UCLA, Los Angeles CA 90024 .......... Keep honking. phone: +1 310 825 2173 / 9036; home +1 310 209 0068 ........... I'm reloading. http://www.math.ucla.edu/~eijkhout/ ..................... [LA bumper sticker]