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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-was.dfn.de!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-ber1.dfn.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Has 2.2.1 been a bit rushed out the door? Date: 11 May 1997 17:32:27 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 30 Message-ID: <5l4vrb$16j@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <tporczyk.862358549@shell3.ba.best.com> <5kfi0v$s03@uriah.heep.sax.de> <5kiot2$17q@dfw-ixnews6.ix.netcom.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:40741 kheller2@ix.netcom.com (Karl Heller) wrote: > Have these bugs been fixed in 2.2.1-RELENG? You mean in RELENG_2_2 (the CVS branch tag for 2.2-stable)? I think so, yes. If you mean in FreeBSD-2.2.1R (that's a fixed CVS tag named RELENG_2_2_1_RELEASE), no, that's where the problems became apparent. > I'm a little confused as to what the i586 *really* means in the > chip world. It's how we call Intel's Pentium. Intel decided to no longer give their chips a number after they experienced that numbers were not trademarkable. We don't care about trademarks, and simply continue what Intel started: 86, 186, 286, 386, 486, 586, 686, maybe 787 some day. It's the other manufacturers like AMD who now contribute to the confusion by naming chips like `586' when they're actually only downscaled (by level of chip dimensions) 486s. Not that i hate AMD, but i find this particular idea silly (as well as Intel's DX<something> idea is silly, where <something>=4 usually meant it was triple clocked, IIRC). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)