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- From: preston@nic.cerf.net (Preston L. Bannister)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: PC-clone UNIX Software Buyer's Guide
- Message-ID: <2525@news.cerf.net>
- Date: 15 Aug 92 19:46:14 GMT
- References: <1hQSr7#4j0mn690sxx39LFgDX47gPx5=esr@snark.thyrsus.comPeter> <id.LQCS.QG4@ferranti.com>
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- In article <1hQSr7#4j0mn690sxx39LFgDX47gPx5=esr@snark.thyrsus.comPeter> esr@snark.thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond) writes:
-
- > You say you want cutting-edge hacking tools without having to mortgage the
- > wife'n'kids?
-
- In article <id.LQCS.QG4@ferranti.comPeter> peter@ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
-
- >Nope.
-
- >Other people have flamed enough about the presentation of this information.
- >I'd like to gripe about the information itself. Eric's the sort of guy who,
- >were he a car nut, would be buying a new car every other year and customize
- >it to death.
-
- >I'd like to put in a word for the people who, if they were car nuts, would be
- >working on keeping their old car running well. Or who aren't car nuts at all,
- >but just want reliable transportation. That, after all, is where the money is.
-
- >And here's my request for Eric: more older systems listed in the Guide. You
- >say you can be a powerful advocate for the net... well let's see you be a
- >powerful advocate for the little guys on it as well. If support for folks
- >with '87 chevys as well as people with '92 vettes gets rewarded with good
- >publicity, maybe your vette will still be drivable in '97.
-
- Peter has a good point about backwards compatibility and support, but
- as Eric's rhetorical questions suggests, that is not the focus of the FAQ.
-
- In fact, I think Peter has just volunteered to write the FAQ covering
- the compatibility and support issue. :-)
-
- In my case, Eric's question is right on the mark. So I'm not
- volunteering. :-)
-
- --
- Preston L. Bannister
- Upstanding Systems
- preston@cerf.net
-