Re: [Freedos-user] Congrats to Grech!

[Roberto Mariottini]

Ciao, Jack wrote: Udo Kuhnt wrote me yesterday, 4-Dec-2007, about Grech's FD-User post, where Grech thanks his fiend -- NOT friend but FIEND -- for the XDMA driver. Udo noted he DID NOT regard this as any sort of "typographical error", and neither did I. For non-native English speaking people (like me): fiend  (fnd) n. 1.   a. An evil spirit; a demon.   b. The Devil; Satan.   c. A diabolically evil or wicked person. 2. Informal One who is addicted to something: a dope fiend. 3. Informal One who is completely absorbed in or obsessed with a given job or pastime: a crossword-puzzle fiend. 4. Informal One who is particularly adept at something: a fiend with computers. [Middle English, from Old English fond; see p(i)- in Indo-European roots.] The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ©2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2003. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. Ciao

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