Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!texbell!splut!jay From: jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Time for 8 bit news, isn't it?????. Message-ID: Date: 30 Jul 90 05:12:47 GMT References: <1990Jul13.022224.25441@lth.se> <3119.269d97ea@mccall.com> <777@hades.ausonics.oz.au> <15688@bfmny0.BFM.COM> <1990Jul21.054016.10409@looking.on.ca> <14W43HC@xds13.ferranti.com> <9SQ&.FC@splut.conmi Reply-To: jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard) Organization: Confederate Microsystems, League City, TX Lines: 18 In article <5IX4X2D@ggpc2.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >In article <9SQ&.FC@splut.conmicro.com> jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard) writes: >> ...huh? Your statement doesn't make much sense. Binaries haven't been >> useful for Unix sites since it was first ported off a PDP-11. >Well, that's the point. ...except that your point doesn't port to the IBM-PC environment, where binaries are useful; the mountain of PC packages delivered in object form, often in some compressed archive format with documentation in a neat little bundle, is an existence proof. Usenet is more than Unix. -- Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can jay@splut.conmicro.com (eieio)| adequately be explained by stupidity. "It's a hardware bug!" "It's a +---------------------------------------- software bug!" "It's two...two...two bugs in one!" - _Engineer's Rap_