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From: nora@ne.Snafu.DE (Nora E. Etukudo)
Date: Sat,  4 Mar 95 17:55:27 GMT
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root@cynjut.infonet.net (Dave Burgess)
wrote on 27 Feb 1995 21:10:25 -0600:
> In article <3itcle$fvo@pandora.sdsu.edu>,
> Larry Riedel <larryr@saturn.sdsu.edu> wrote:
> >Jason Fordham (jclf@earthlink.net) wrote:
> >> - are there any drivers for FooBSD for these cards?
> >
> >Where can I get FooBSD?  How does it compare to NetBSD and FreeBSD?  Is
> >it better than Linux?  Can it run DOOM?  Can it run off a floppy drive?
> >Are there any plans to merge FooBSD with NetBSD and FreeBSD and Linux?
> 
> It is like BarBSD, which is very common here in the Midwest.  FooBSD is
> distributed my Orthodox Scientology Churches throughout this region;
> BarBSD being distributed by (obviously) Satan's hangouts.

Well. Very impressive, but the real question is:

How to handle houndreds of mega bits per second on the ether, with any of
the *BSD flavours (including FooBSD and BarBSD)?

Tschaui, Nora.
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