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From: "Serge A. Babkin" <babkin@hq.icb.chel.su>
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Subject: Re: Policy on printf format specifiers?
To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 14:47:30 +0600 (GMT+0600)
Cc: terry@lambert.org, peter@taronga.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
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> 
> > > It has been my experience that the minimal resources required for X are
> > > such that even if every character required a callback the slowest component
> > > in the system is still the nut holding the keyboard.
> > 
> > Experience SCO Open DeskTop.
> 
> Except we always referred to it as Open Death Trap..
> 
> :-)

It's a real trap ! :-( The most interesting thing is that their ODT 5 had
lost the compatibility with ODT 3 ! :-) At least it hangs deadly when
running some programs from old SCO from any user. If this system is "Business
Critical" then FreeBSD can be named "Business Super-Critical" ! ;-)

		Serge Babkin

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