At 14:52 30/01/99 +0100, Simon Weijgers wrote:
>
>> Hi David Murn,
>>
>> > Not quite. Not "Linux machines based on the 8086" more "Linux based on
>> > the 8086".
>>
>> > If you can't distinguish the difference between 8086 and 80x86 maybe you
>> > should read up on it some more.
>>
>> > We don't mind 8086 linux questions, that's 100% what the list is for, but
>> > 8086, NOT x86 (as the list implies).
>>
>> Not that I'm arguing, I agree that the original question was posted
>> to the wrong list. But what questions about development for the
>> 80286 (such as 286 protected mode)? I've noticed a few discussions
>> involving that, which I guess then was totally off-topic.
>
>*HUGE SIGH*
>People really ought to reboot themselves with the pedantic option
>turned off.
>
Yeah, isn't it about time we all forgot about this off-topic stuff. No
matter what
we do, we will always get off-topic posts from newbies, ppl with nothing
better to do,
and ppl who don't know better. The traffic generated by all these replies far
outweighs the original off-topic post, and IMHO, are much more annoying than
the original post. Lets try to show some restrait and ignore off-topic posts.
Beau Kuiper
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