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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!ub!library.erc.clarkson.edu!komarimf From: komarimf@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Mark Komarinski) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: a monthly FreeBSD magazine (and other *BSD's too) Followup-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Date: 3 Jan 1996 21:53:39 GMT Organization: Clarkson University Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4cett3$ic0@library.erc.clarkson.edu> References: <4ajc07$sb7@unix2.glink.net.hk> <4ca3gu$4nc@news1.halcyon.com> <4cdijr$hjg@toplink1.toplink.net> <BTHANIS.96Jan3085314@hawk.torolab.ibm.com> <4cepat$ht@cynic.portal.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: craft.camp.clarkson.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:32280 alt.os.linux:6938 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:11602 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:1738 Curt Sampson (curt@portal.ca) wrote: : In article <BTHANIS.96Jan3085314@hawk.torolab.ibm.com>, : Bill Thanis <bthanis@torolab.ibm.com> wrote: : : : :>I think a very large portion of the FreeBSD and NetBSD user community would : :>considre an IDE CDROM (and also other ide devices) a "wierd device" they would : :>not touch with 5 foot isolated pole ;-> : : : :If its dropped into your lap, you use it. IBM has tonnes of old : :MICROCHANNEL 386's on peoples desk because they run OS/2 and a : :word-processor. Most Professional environments whose sole job is not : :development use old machines, because they do what is needed. : Yeah, so how many `professional envrionments' use those old : Microchannel 386s for their NetWare servers? I was working for IBM the summer of '91 doing PC upgrades for their financial people. I was (literally) replacing IBM-PC (not XT..the original) with 386-based PS/2s. The users didn't mind all that much, except that now they had color in their Lotus 123 graphs. -- - Mark Komarinski - komarimf@craft.camp.clarkson.edu Did you know that 50% of statistics are made up?