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Re: Filing Hurd-porting patches in the BTS or upstream? (was: where do...)



On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 05:03:44PM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote:
> On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 01:02:27PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> > > > "5 years from now everyone will be running
> > > > free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5"
> > > >
> > > >               Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 30 Jan 1992
> > > 
> > > Did you pick this tagline on purpose, or was it random?
> > 
> > I took it long before this discussion was started. You can find logs
> > somewhere.
> > 
> > considering the date, my reference is obviously ironical (ten years
> > later - everyone is running nonfree windows on their 386)
> 
> Ten years later, the GNU kernel doesn't even run on a SPARC..  ;)

it could well never do, maybe when it's released we have Freedom CPU
already (http://www.f-cpu.org/)

cheers,

-- 
Robert Millan

"5 years from now everyone will be running
free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5"

              Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 30 Jan 1992


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