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.. ;)
--
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But X will do that to a man. Imagine what it's like, not being able to
browse "XXX" sites without being reminded of the latest chipset driver
bugs.
-- Richard Braakman
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