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Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 08:45:12 -0500 (EST)
From: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
To: Simon Burge <simonb@telstra.com.au>
cc: netbsd-advocacy@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: Old machines (was Re: Do you like my new NetBSD banner?)
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On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Simon Burge wrote:

: On Fri, 15 Jan 1999 12:30:58 +0100 (MET)  Hubert Feyrer wrote:
: 
: > On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Todd Vierling wrote:
: > > So, dare I ask why you're still running 1.1 on one box?  <g>
: > 
: > Historical reasons? ;-)
: > 
: > Serious, the box is at my parent's place, and "running" isn't the right
: > workd... "storing on disk" is better, as the machine's always almost
: > switched off.
: 
: FWIW, the work end of my home link is still a 1.1 box.  It lives in a
: LAN room in a building that I'm not even sure I have access to anymore,
: and I'm a little too cowardly to try a remote upgrade...
: 
: I can understand the historical argument too - during the recent upgrade
: of my home i386 to 1.3.3, I figured out that /usr/lib/libc.so.1.1
: isn't used by anything anymore (but a couple of things still use
: /usr/lib/libc.so.2.1) but couldn't bring myself to remote it :-)  I've
: still got a few binaries in /usr/local/bin that are pre-shared libraries
: that serve no real purpose but "history" - who uses zmodem any more?
: 
: Simon.
: 

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-- Todd Vierling (Personal tv@pobox.com; Bus. todd_vierling@xn.xerox.com)