From owner-freebsd-current Fri Aug 8 10:27:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA00185 for current-outgoing; Fri, 8 Aug 1997 10:27:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA00177 for ; Fri, 8 Aug 1997 10:27:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA24459; Fri, 8 Aug 1997 10:23:59 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199708081723.KAA24459@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: flags 80ff works (like anybody doubted it) To: ggm@connect.com.au (George Michaelson) Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 10:23:59 -0700 (MST) Cc: garbanzo@hooked.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <7777.871004685@connect.com.au> from "George Michaelson" at Aug 8, 97 11:44:45 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I think it was said in 'insanely great' that shaving 1 second off the > boot time for a Mac over the lifetime of the MacOS is like saving 10 peoples > lifespans in time saved worldwide... This quote is from both the book "Accidental Empires" and the PBS series "Triumph of the Nerds", both by Robert Cringely. I'm a big advocate of giving developers slow hardware to run on, but fast hardware to compile on (unless they are compiler writers, in which case they get slow hardware both places). However, the point isn't that you can, for $9000, soup up a Ford Festiva, but that a Ford Mustang cost less than a Ford Festiva and $9000. There. Jordan should be happy... it's a car analogy. 8-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.