Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 13:38:35 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk> To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Describing FreeBSD Message-ID: <19990727133835.E535@kilt.nothing-going-on.org>
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I was at a friend's house the other night, sorting out various bits and
pieces, which included at one point booting up my FreeBSD laptop (which
drops in to X, running fvwm95.
This friend's brother pokes his head around the door, and sees the fvwm
screen. The conversion then went.
Brother: Hey, what's that?
[ Peers at the screen ]
Brother: Is that Windows 98?
Me : No, this is FreeBSD.
Brother: What's that?
Friend : You know what a Macintosh is, right?
Well, it's almost exactly unlike one of those.
Well, it made me smile.
N
... FreeBSD: Almost exactly unlike a Macintosh.
--
[intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed,
non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs
the links.
-- Tom Christiansen in <375143b5@cs.colorado.edu>
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