Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!lll-winken!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!utrcu1!mi.eltn.utwente.nl!klamer From: klamer@mi.eltn.utwente.nl (Klamer Schutte) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Fred, Advanced MINIX, PH, AST and so on Message-ID: Date: 30 May 91 11:41:38 GMT References: <54878@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Sender: news@utrcu1.UUCP Organization: University of Twente, BSC-El Lines: 19 In <54878@nigel.ee.udel.edu> tsarna@polar.bowdoin.edu (Tyler Sarna) writes: %>Andy Tanenbaum wrote: %>> and assume that it is natural that every time you drive 1000 km the shape of %>> the electrical outlets change, so a device that works at (x, y) can't be %>> plugged in at (x + 1000, y). %>Boy, you must have very, very straight roads in the NL if that %>math works :-) Euclidean math won't help you. 1000 km and the Netherlands -- any map will show what a funny mistake this is ;-) Klamer -- Klamer Schutte Tel: +31-53-892786 Fax: +31-53-340045 Faculty of electrical engineering -- University of Twente, The Netherlands preferred: klamer@mi.eltn.utwente.nl SMTP: klamer@utelmi01.el.utwente.nl