From: aehall@calvin.seattleu.edu (OUTTA HERE!) Subject: Re: Can you port Linux to my Refrigerator? Date: 8 Sep 1993 17:54:55 GMT
In article <QUINLAN.93Sep8132001@rose.cs.bucknell.edu> quinlan@spectrum.cs.bucknell.edu writes:
[snip -- porting stuff deleted]
>
>You know, I think that Linux should be ported to my refrigerator. I
>mean, it already has many built in features similar to Unix and I
>think that these facts should make a port simple.
[snip]
> o Multi-user interface (I can use the freezer and someone else can
> access the rest without any device conflicts)
Yes, but what kind of security does your refrigerator have? Has it
been through NSA's certification?? I'm all for the port, but a bit worried
about unauthorized users...
[snip]
>This "port Linux to everything thing phenomenon" is rather silly. Why
>on Earth would you want to port it to anything nobody uses anymore? I
>don't want to know how slow any Unix would run on my Commodore 128
>(yes I still have a working one). I know that we aren't all made of
>gold, but 386's are dirt cheap these days.
Hey, don't laugh... it took me a couple of days to port linux to my
TRS-80. I'll be uploading it to sunsite in a couple of days
(sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/TRS-80/*).
Received: xxq
:) for the humor deficient
-Anthony
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