A young soldier was in his bunkhouse all alone one Sunday morning
over in Afghanistan.  It was quiet that day, the guns and the mortars,
and land mines for some reason hadn't made a noise. The young soldier knew
it was Sunday, the Lord's day.  As he was sitting there, he got out an
old deck of cards and laid them out across his bunk.



Just then an army sergeant came in and said, "Why aren't you with the rest
of the platoon?"  The soldier replied, "I thought I would stay behind and
spend some time with the Lord."  The sergeant said, "Looks like you're going
to play cards."  The soldier said, "No sir, you see, since we are not
allowed to have Bibles or other  spiritual books in this country, I've
decided to talk to the Lord by studying this deck of cards."  The sergeant
asked in disbelief, "How will you do that?"  "You see the Ace, Sergeant, it
reminds that there is only one God.  The Two represents the two parts of the
Bible, Old and New Testaments.  The Three represents the Father, the Son,
and the Holy Ghost.  The Four stands for the Four Apostles: Matthew, Mark,
Luke and John.  The Five is for the five virgins that were ten but only five
of them were glorified.  The Six is for the six days it took God to create
the Heavens and Earth.  The Seven is for the day God rested after working
the six days.  The Eight is for the family of Noah and his wife, their three
sons and their wives, in which God saved the eight people from the flood
that destroyed the earth for the first time.  The Nine is for the lepers
that Jesus cleansed of leprosy.  He cleansed ten but nine never thanked Him.
The Ten represents the Ten Commandments that God handed down to Moses on
tablets made of stone.  The Jack is a reminder of Satan.  One of God's first
angels, but he got kicked out of heaven for his sly and wicked ways and is
now the joker of eternal hell.  The Queen stands for the Virgin Mary.  The
King stands for Jesus, for he is the King of all kings.  When I count the
dots on all the cards, I come up with 365 total, one for every day of the
year.  There are a total of 52 cards in a deck, each is a week, 52 weeks in
a year.  The four suits represents the four seasons: Spring, Summer, Fall
and Winter.  Each suit has thirteen cards, there are exactly thirteen weeks
in a quarter. So when I want to talk to God and thank Him, I just pull out
this old deck of cards and they remind me of all that I have to be thankful
for." The sergeant just stood there and after a minute, with tears in his
eyes and pain in his heart, he said, "Soldier, can I borrow that deck of
cards?" -- Originator Unknown



Please let this be a reminder and take time to pray for all of our soldiers
who are being sent away, putting their lives on the line fighting for us.
Send this on so that we can have a multitude praying for our people and our
country.  God Bless America!



----- Original Message -----
From: "Frederick Bruckman" <fredb@immanent.net>
To: "Izumi Tsutsui" <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
Cc: <john@sixgirls.org>; <sibagaki@lsi.melco.co.jp>;
<port-mac68k@netbsd.org>; <port-m68k@netbsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 9:48 AM
Subject: Re: m68k soft float (was illegal instruction)


> On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
>
> > In article
<Pine.NEB.4.44.0303051017390.5663-100000@elation.immanent.net>
> > fredb@immanent.net wrote:
> >
> > > As for future releases, isn't sun2 userland built with -soft-float? If
> > > so, it could serve with just a few additions. Then we could have just
> > > the two sets of sets, one for m68000 (-m68000 + -msoft-float), and one
> > > for m68k (-m68020 or -m68020-40 or -m68020-60).
> >
> > sun2 has different MACHINE_ARCH (m68000) and MID_MACHINE (MID_M680002K)
> > from other m68k ports (m68k and MID_M68K).
>
> But it's basically the same compiler, with different "specs" (i.e.
> different defaults). So if you compile a package with CFLAGS='-m68020
> -mno-soft-float' on m68000, you get the same binary as on m68k (no
> CFLAGS). Is that not true?
>
> Frederick
>
>