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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Subject: Re: Ref.tfs.com (the future of)
Message-ID: <1993Mar10.164548.26438@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
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References: <1993Mar4.223229.23916@tfs.com> <1993Mar4.235225.28824@coe.montana.edu>
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 93 16:45:48 GMT
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In article <1993Mar4.235225.28824@coe.montana.edu> nate@cs.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes:
>In article <1993Mar4.223229.23916@tfs.com> julian@tfs.com (Julian Elischer) writes:
>[ description of ref's future ]
>
>>
>>julian
>>+----------------------------------+       ______ _  __
>>|   __--_|\  Julian Elischer       |       \     U \/ / On assignment
>>|  /       \ julian@tfs.com        +------>x   USA    \ in a very strange
>>| (   OZ    ) 2118 Milvia st. Berkeley CA. \___   ___ | country !
>>+- X_.---._/  USA+(510) 704-3137(wk)           \_/   \\
>>	  v
>>	  [ Home on the 13th! ]
>
>
>I want to publically give a big THANKS to Julian, for all the work he
>has done with ref, and his SCSI driver's, and beta-testing, and kernel
>hacking, and bug fixing, and ...
>
>He has done all of this with nary a complaint, and the whole 386BSD 
>community owes him a debt of gratitude.
>
>If ref wouldn't have been there, much of what in today 386BSD would
>not be in existance.
>
>
>Thanks a bunch Julian, we're going to miss you,
>
>Nate

Agreed!  Besides his SCSI drivers, he has provided resources for building
a kernel to many, many people who wouldn't have a kernel that worked on
their hardware otherwise, provided 1000% better boot code, and provided
a forum and a central location for open discussion and work on joint
projects.

Thanks Julian!


					Terry Lambert
					terry@icarus.weber.edu
					terry_lambert@novell.com
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