From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Jul 12 18:14:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-doc Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA28537 for doc-outgoing; Fri, 12 Jul 1996 18:14:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freenet.hamilton.on.ca (main.freenet.hamilton.on.ca [199.212.94.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA28531; Fri, 12 Jul 1996 18:14:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca [199.212.94.66]) by freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id VAA00911; Fri, 12 Jul 1996 21:14:38 -0400 Received: (ac199@localhost) by james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.6.12/8.6.12) id VAA29343; Fri, 12 Jul 1996 21:16:11 -0400 Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 21:16:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: doc@freebsd.org, www@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anyone up for a little triage on http://www.freebsd.org/about.html? In-Reply-To: <14029.837166189@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-doc@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 12 Jul 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > Cc: www@freebsd.org What the heck is that list!? Be damned if I've ever seen it before... > The overall style of our current version isn't so bad so much as is > the content - I don't think that trumpeting "PRE-EMPTIVE > MULTITASKING!" is, for example, quite as effective as citing some more OTOH, I do quite specifically recall my computer teacher from last semester asking if "UNIX was multitasking"... I considered saying `No, but that it is multi-terminal and multi-user', or `No, but FreeBSD is!' :). Admittedly, if someone isn't sure wether a modern Unice is capable of running more than one program at a time, they probably won't be swayed to installing FreeBSD no matter how well-written the welcome.html file... :( -- Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! tIM...HOEk