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From: gt@g386bsd.first.gmd.de (Gerd Truschinski)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: modification to /sbin/ping
Message-ID: <4026@bigfoot.first.gmd.de>
Date: 25 Sep 93 01:15:20 GMT
References: <1868@optigfx.optigfx.com> <BLYMN.93Sep24211709@mallee.awadi.com.au>
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In article <BLYMN.93Sep24211709@mallee.awadi.com.au>,
Brett Lymn <blymn@mallee.awadi.com.au> wrote:
>>>>>> On 21 Sep 93 21:48:00 GMT, mrm@optigfx.com (Mike Murphy) said:
>
>
>[nice idea about making ping return a 1 status on unreachable]
>
>Mike>   
>Mike> would work. This would be convenient.
>
>It would work and would be convenient. 
[stuff deleted]

>Go with the zen of life, contemplate one architecture computing and
>see that history will grind you to a pulp if you get in it's way :-)
>
>Mike> I'm hesitant to suggest this change because the last
>Mike> few people who suggested that behavior other than
>Mike> stock BSD might be good were burned at the stake...
>
>Consider yourself mildly toasted.

But we didn't have a commercial OS. THIS is something to play with. If we
want to have something stable, we buy SCO or VM/370(360). In my opinion
BSD is a moving target(a very slow one). 95% of the world is doing
something other.... Why couldn't we play the right game?

/gT/

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