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Date:      Thu, 1 Feb 1996 00:02:36 -73300 (EST)
From:      michael butler <imb@scgt.oz.au>
To:        peter@jhome.DIALix.COM (Peter Wemm)
Cc:        jkh@time.cdrom.com, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: any ideas about this crash?
Message-ID:  <199601311302.AAA06084@asstdc.scgt.oz.au>
In-Reply-To: <199601310802.QAA07718@jhome.DIALix.COM> from "Peter Wemm" at Jan 31, 96 04:02:09 pm

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Peter Wemm writes:

> >So where to from here, a BOGOMIPS rating at startup? :-)
 
> I'd agree to a BOGOMIPS rating at bootup, ..

> Seriously, bogomips would likely be a pain in the backside if we attempted
> to make it comparable to Linux, ..

This is precisely why they would have to be "FreeStones" (if that name isn't
already "tainted") or some totally and obviously incomparable figure.

> (This is just like the users over here in *.au that phone you to complain
> that a modem answered the modem call but didn't give them a login:
> prompt because the machine was down and "wasted" their $0.25 flag-fall
> local call fee. (Just like they've just blown an extra $0.25 to tell you
> this))

 .. and yet they won't leave a message on an answering machine or with my
message service to tell me who it is that I'm supposed to call back .. it's
a wierd country this :-)

	michael



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