Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 08:49:33 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> To: dkelly@hiwaay.net Cc: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>, freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Freewin95 - just fyi Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.95q.970211084633.1432C-100000@fiber.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <199702110508.XAA18146@nexgen.ampr.org>
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On Mon, 10 Feb 1997 dkelly@hiwaay.net wrote: > Christoph Kukulies writes: > > > > Don't know whether I should smile or whine upon this, but > > maybe someone could tell this whiz that the grounds are laid already :-) > > > > http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/7519/ > > I'm pretty sure its not April 1, yet. > > They said on the referenced page: > > Did you know... > > ...that the average Freedows '98 Member computer system runs at > > 97.42 MHZ, has 25.25 MB RAM and has a 1.65 MB Video Card? This > > is somewhat equivalent to a Pentium 90 with 24 MB of RAM and a > > 2MB Video Card! Additionally, 53% use Intel Pentium Machines... > > Am wondering if it isn't April 1, 2000 already, somewhere in the world. :-) I know the posting is from berkeley, but I have to be just a little skeptical about publicity from a project that isn't even started yet, on a project so large that you _know_ it can't be done quickly. Shows that commercial firms have no monopoly on vaporware. Maybe it'll become real, but the announcements, coming so early, seem in poor taste. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
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