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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!gatech!news.sprintlink.net!noc.netcom.net!netcom.com!ceb From: Charles Buckley <ceb@netcom.com> Subject: Re: The Future of FreeBSD... Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <cebDC6IM5.JBE@netcom.com> Sender: ceb@netcom13.netcom.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Mauto References: <3uktse$d9c@hal.nt.tuwien.ac.at> <3ulsro$ssl@agate.berkeley.edu> <3umkok$de2@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> <3up590$nrg@rover.village.org> <3upn8r$158@agate.berkeley.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Sun, 23 Jul 1995 17:15:41 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Windows; I; 16bit) Lines: 21 jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) wrote: >In article <3up590$nrg@rover.village.org>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org> wrote: >>Hmmm, I guess I should have tried harder to get the FreeBSD release of >>OI and ObjectBuilder out the door :-(. Its been doing that for >>years... > >Yeah, you sure should have! :-) > >P.S. I still have the complimentary copy of the OI manual that Amber >sent me sitting on the floor behind me. Totally useless since any >app I develop with it can't even be run by anyone else save a few >Linux users who are still using an outdated and somewhat buggy version. As do I, on a top shelf. I remember that the executables I did cobble up were of the mambo-variety, although this dated from the pre-shared-libs era. I tried hard but couldn't generate any interest in deploying this in a corporate/corporate-client arena. It seems that window-based apps are to have a Windows-oid flavour for a number of years to come. Somehow this bothers me.