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From: eijkhout@jacobi.math.ucla.edu (Victor Eijkhout)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux thoroughly insulted by Infoworld!
Date: 07 Feb 1995 10:57:13 GMT
Organization: UCLA Math Department
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In-reply-to: kai@khms.westfalen.de's message of 06 Feb 1995 21:28:00 +0100

In article <5fKBnEpjcsB@khms.westfalen.de> kai@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen) writes:

> You mean those things (can you really call them cars?) that, after an  
> accident, are reduced to a heap of plastic rubble (with sharp edges)? :-)

The very same. Their max speed, btw, is approx equal to
the legal min speed on European highways, so you find them
there, doing in general at least 30mph less than the rest
of traffic, thereby causing much flipping of middle fingers
and pointing at foreheads :-)
--
Victor Eijkhout
Department of Mathematics, UCLA, Los Angeles CA 90024 .......... Keep honking.
phone: +1 310 825 2173 / 9036; home +1 310 209 0068 ........... I'm reloading.
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