On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Clarence Verge wrote:
> Steve wrote:
> >
> > I'm sure I'll think of more as I let it percolate,
> > but right off the bat, I have to think that this lets
> > out the Linux freak. There never was a Linux version
> > of A1.5b2. :-/
>
> Are you declining or just saying that you weren't a Linux freak until
> recently and never saw A1.5b2 ? <G>
No, I'm saying for someone who runs *only* Linux
(the test for whether one is actually a Linux "freak"
;-), there is no A15b2. (I became a Linux "advocate"
the first time I ever read about it in '93, -
Middleburg, FL - but I didn't actually have a machine
capable of running it until Nov'97, - Gallup, NM -
which is when I became a Linux "user."
As it happens, I look in /mnt/c-dos/ and see arac1502/
so I must have used it at one time or other, but that
was a LONG time ago! ;-)
You might as well ask me to remember 0.7b when I
registered!
Hmm... yes, the last .snt message in the arac1502/mail/
directory is 38527826.snt... or in human times,
Sep 28 1999... that would have been in Archer, FL.
In some ways, it's good to have moved 28 times.
You have historical benchmarks that help you place
certain events. ;-)
Oh, yeah, then when my hard drive crashed last
year, I used A1.69 on my wife's machine for about a
week, til the new drive made it out to the rez.
> All we need is the differing viewpoints, really.
> You could still judge DOS Arachne 1.5b2 from your current viewpoint
> couldn't you ?
I could judge Linux Arachne 1.66 since that's the one
I use... but to try to contrast/compare with a version
I haven't seen in nearly two years would be futile...
and of course I've never even seen 1.70.
The 486DX-66 that was my wife's machine was going to
be the new firewall until it burned up a few days ago.
Her "new" machine, a P133, has an ATI video card
which so far doesn't work with Arachne... then again,
I only just now tried it. I probably need to rerun
setup.
Anyway, at the heart of all this rambling is the
message that I'm not declining. ;-)
- Steve
