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From: stevens@adam.dseg.ti.com (Harold Stevens)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD
Date: 7 Feb 1997 11:43:59 GMT
Organization: Texas Instruments Inc. - Systems Group
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In <32FAC1B5.2781E494@freebsd.org>, "John S. Dyson" <dyson@freebsd.org>:
>> Floating Exception
>> IOT trap (Division by Zero)
>> Core dumped :)
>
> Confusing? WinNT runs most of the old Win3.1 apps (except very
> machine (low level dependent) ones), FreeBSD runs most of the
[Snip...]
Synoposis: Discussion comparing Win* to NT, as Linux to BSD. Does
anyone remember the archaic ratio formulation ("x is to a as c is to d")?
Has interesting (but useless) properties if any component is zero; i.e.,
no signal in the noise. Entropically speaking, absolute zero Kelvin, in
that no useful work is done or information preserved.
This whole Linux?BSD?DOS?DOZE?NT? fracas is hilarious to me. Am I
the only one who finds dismayed ||&& disturbed humor in it?
Probably... :)
Sigh...One more argument for redundant trailing smileys... :):):)...
Regards, Weird
wyrd@ti.com