Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Jan 1999 14:32:26 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: *** next draft - press release *** |
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On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
> Yes, I suppose that is needed. Let's skip "Information Highway" > though, please!
Seconded. Let's leave it to this Gore wanker. BTW, he misparsed what he heard: 'highway' thing was told about the new cross-Atlantic link, *not* about the 'net. No need to make half of the 'net laugh/barf.
> >> new life to older 486-based computers. Support is widely available > > > > Here we should change that 486-based to 386-based ... don't limit our > > suporting to the lower end ... someone is still using 386 :) > > Hopefully that will be an option left for hackers only. > 386 support cuts into performance and SMP support.
How so? When did you look at the code last time?
> Marcin Dalecki writes: > > > What about something in the sense of: "* Frist UNIX support for a > > wide range of advanced multimedia features like video capture ..."
Very likely an outright lie. And one that can be easily caught, at that.
> No, UNIX is a legacy operating system. UNIX is hard to use. > UNIX might even be dead. Linux is new, exciting, and trendy! > Linux even has more server market share than UNIX. :-)
OK, Albert, you've got a smiley there and your name in From: kinda counts for implicit C&C warning, but could you please *explicitly* warn about such pearls? Say it, a page or two prior to the thing. This coffee was *hot*. Thanks $DEITY I don't have a cat. Sorry, some of us may be in the end of *long* run and may be caught unprepared.
> > No it should be something about: " full support for direct data > > interchangability between Linux and NT systems!" > > That won't do either, since it might just mean TCP/IP. > How about "hard disks" or "hard drives"?
Guess how the second variant will be misparsed ;-)
> > "It should be expected that the system integrators will incorporate > > it as SOON AS POSSIBLE into ..." > > Yes, good idea.
It bloody shouldn't! Press release or not, *never* dare to give promises on part of other folks.
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