From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Jul 6 03:30:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA16467 for hardware-outgoing; Sat, 6 Jul 1996 03:30:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id DAA16439 for ; Sat, 6 Jul 1996 03:30:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id TAA23787; Sat, 6 Jul 1996 19:52:49 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199607061022.TAA23787@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: your mail To: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) Date: Sat, 6 Jul 1996 19:52:49 +0930 (CST) Cc: jparnas@jparnas.cybercom.net, hardware@freebsd.org, bsdi-users@bsdi.com In-Reply-To: <199607060653.UAA29144@pegasus.com> from "Richard Foulk" at Jul 5, 96 08:53:31 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Richard Foulk stands accused of saying: > > Our cable company here in Honolulu is apparently going to use modems that > provide 6Mb in both directions. The promise is $50/month. The cable > modem connects to your ethernet. The cable company is becoming an ISP, > in a big way. Yeah, right. And what fraction of their available bandwidth will you get? Who cares how fast your pipe to _them_ is, what's theirs to the rest of the world? And how many people do you have to share it with? > Richard -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[