Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 13:31:17 +0100 From: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass), freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Here is what IBM thinks about using FreeBSD on their newer Message-ID: <v0422080cb64d493f53e9@[195.238.1.121]> In-Reply-To: <200012011156.EAA22945@usr01.primenet.com> References: <200012011156.EAA22945@usr01.primenet.com>
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At 11:55 AM +0000 2000/12/1, Terry Lambert wrote: > Whistle sold InterJets; you could have bought one then. Sadly, I didn't find out about them until the announcement that IBM was buying the company, and didn't think that the business model would be changing, so I didn't race around trying to scrape up the cash to buy one on the spur of the moment. > As far as the Cobalt stuff goes, NetBSD runs on the x86 RAQ and > Qube things, so getting FreeBSD going would probably be trivial, > if someone hasn't done it already. I'd be interested in hearing more about this, if anyone has any information. > Put another way: do you see a lot of VCR+ codes being published > in your local television guides, or the hardware for it out > there? I'm not in the US anymore, so I can't say whether VCR+ still has any penetration. I know that, as of the time I left (a couple of years ago), they were still in wide use, and had been for a number of years. IIRC, virtually all VCRs sold had this feature. > How successful was DIVX? Thankfully, it died very quickly. However, because of it, I will never again buy anything at Circuit City. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, <blk@skynet.be> || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels http://www.skynet.be || Belgium "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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