[SC.LUG] luddite hardware support

[Richard Smedley]

On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 10:40, John Southern wrote:

Hello John,

Thanks for the QL history - Torvalds also mentions it
in his Wired interview
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.11/linus_pr.html

> Luddite is apt for me. The village next to where I grew up is called 
> Broadbottom and was the site where the Luddites finally ended. The manager of 
> the mill agreed that they could smash the engines in the yard as long as they 
> did not burn down the mill.

I just hope they didn't get in and smash your
babbage difference engine - it's needed to test
out the NetBSD port ;-P

>  The Cheshire Cheese across the road from the mill 
> serves the finest beer in the known world.

Sounds like a good meeting venue 8-)

 - Richard

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