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From: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Why isn't NetBSD popular?
Date: 26 Aug 1995 13:57:12 GMT
Organization: Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica
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References: <DDACyE.CBt@seas.ucla.edu> <MICHAELV.95Aug21224101@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> <KSTAILEY.95Aug22093652@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov> <41fjmp$6ei@reason.cdrom.com>
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In article <41fjmp$6ei@reason.cdrom.com>, Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>
>And besides, you disqualified yourself already by using a 1GB drive. Real
>Men don't need more than a 45MB ST-506 drive and 2MB of memory 'cause it's
>just not a CHALLENGE otherwise! Any wimply AOL-using newbie can install on an
>entire gigabyte, for gawdsake! Where are your balls, man?
Okaaaayyy... where's the guy who had a 386sx/16 with 4 megs of
RAM, NFS-mounted swap, source and object trees, and managed to
complete a "make world" after six straight days of compiling? ;-)
--
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org