Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 08:28:40 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: a disembodied voice emerging from the chaos of reality <cjc26@cornell.edu> Cc: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: UNIX, Darwin, NT (was: Installing Linux (was: Sanity regained -- back with the best)) Message-ID: <19990724082840.Z84734@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907230941180.3600-100000@tankgrrl>; from a disembodied voice emerging from the chaos of reality on Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 09:43:23AM -0400 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990723084732.20369C-100000@beelzebubba.sysabend.org> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907230941180.3600-100000@tankgrrl>
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On Friday, 23 July 1999 at 9:43:23 -0400, a disembodied voice emerging from the chaos of reality wrote: > On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Jamie Bowden wrote: > >>>>> Have you noticed that people have been very quiet about the real >>>>> connection between UNIX and Darwin NT? >>>> Alright, what is Darwin NT? I don't do Windows, so enlighten me. >>> >>> Look it up in an atlas :) >> >> So you are talking about Darwin, Australia, which I figured. Seeing where >> in .au it was located however cleared things up, thanks. > > Ok, this entire thread has left me VERY confused..Darwin's the capital of > Northern Territories, There's only one Northern Territory. > fine, I knew that, but what's that got to do with UNIX? The Australian UNIX User Group (AUUG) has a chapter there, and they had a conference last week. I went there and did a whole-day FreeBSD workshop. > The only thing I can think of is the open-source OS from Apple..? You might like to know that I looked at a detailed map of NT, and I'm now able to confirm that in all probability Microsoft NT does not exist. If it does, it's so small as to be completely insignificant. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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