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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:5372 comp.os.linux.misc:35223 comp.os.os2.advocacy:79125 alt.folklore.computers:73221 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy,alt.folklore.computers Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!caen!zip.eecs.umich.edu!newshost.marcam.com!news.mathworks.com!udel!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!torn!alf.uwaterloo.ca!watserv2.uwaterloo.ca!dagbrown From: dagbrown@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Dave Brown) Subject: Re: Linux thoroughly insulted by Infoworld! Message-ID: <D3yDB0.Fov@watserv2.uwaterloo.ca> Sender: news@watserv2.uwaterloo.ca Nntp-Posting-Host: noether.math.uwaterloo.ca Organization: University of Waterloo References: <950116203411@lambada> <3heh7u$scl@umbc8.umbc.edu> <3hh5qc$6k8@blackice.winternet.com> <3hhkm7$mmi@umbc8.umbc.edu> Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 19:11:23 GMT Lines: 21 In article <3hhkm7$mmi@umbc8.umbc.edu>, R. D. Davis <rdavis4@umbc.edu> wrote: >In article <3hh5qc$6k8@blackice.winternet.com>, >Jeff Dege <jdege@winternet.com> wrote: > >> I've got one of those 351 Clevelands, in the '79 Econoline I bought >>a few months back when my '86 Escort blew a head-gasket. 230,000 miles, >>rusted to hell, starts easier and drivers smoother than the Escort did > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >But this didn't happen within 3 or 4 years as happens with many >Japanese cars... it most likely took much longer to happen. Funny, my parents just sold their '85 Honda Civic--it hadn't a speck of rust. This in northern Saskatchewan, where vast quantities of salt on the roads is a way of life. Like to see that with a '85 Ford Escort. --Dave -- http://armf18.dow.on.doe.ca:6700/~dbrown/ Dave Brown, sysadmin for Environment Canada. I charge for any unsolicited advertising that appears in any system I administrate, at the rate of $200/hr for my time in dealing with the ad (min. 1/2 hr) and $100/kB for storage.