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                               I.R.I.F.U.
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  Dear Netters,
  
  Here I am, writing for the first time something that might be useful
  for the Usenet community! 
  
  But first who am I? Well...can't say really much about that because I'm
  not paid or even supposed to do that but well...8) The only thing I can
  say is that I'm part of the  french "happy few" having connection with
  the World! and that friends call me, JB 8))
  
  So what is IRIFU? It might sound very alike somekind of exotic food,
  some may related it to Tofu,  or even an art-martial scream!
  None of the above though. It's the acronym for " I've Read It For U "
  and is pronounced 
  " e-ree-fu " (using english pronounciation!)
  And it's just a very short summary of the various french computer
  magazines I happend to read and from which I find news "interesting" to
  share with you all.
  
  Of course, you may say that here in France we're not at the top of
  high-tech and that "creation" is not as high than places like the US,
  Japan, or Taiwan. It's partly true. Most of the products here come from
  the other "dragons" and late, sometimes very late. It's not uncommon to
  find products available in the US for months and that no one heard
  about it here. Hopefully, it's getting rare!
  Well, alright, that's a point. But then France has lots of ressources
  too. Don't forget Borland with Philippe Kahn (french, yes french!!),
  ACI the maker of 4th Dimension or Chorus with its real-time Unix
  kernel. And that's really a small, but very small "apercu" of what
  France can do. And here there's a saying which goes:
   "Nous n'avons pas de Ptrole, mais nous avons des Ides" (We don't
  have Oil, but we have Ideas!)
  However, here is no place for nationalism: we all know it consequences,
  just see Germany now 8( (hey no offense okay? Just an example).
  So what I want to do in this small digest is just to give an other
  vision of computing (hw&sw), but from here, France. Share the
  impressions we have here of new products, french or not, and may be
  give you some hints 8)!
  I'll post this in various newsgroups (pc, mac, dunno exactly yet!)
  until I really know where it'll be most appropriate to put it.
  I'll try to post it every week, on sundays!, but again this is just for
  fun and there's no way this could be a 105% realiable service 8(.
  
  Okay, so now you know where you're going for!
  
  So, I hope you enjoy reading it, as much as much I do writing it, and
  if you have any comments or critics just mail them to me at:
  
              internet: jb@paris7.jussieu.fr
              bitnet  : jb@frp7un51
              X400    : soon, very soon!!!
  
  
  A tres bientot!
  
  jb
  
  

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Laboratoire d'Electrochimie - Universite Paris 7  |Khac Binh Su
4, place Jussieu, Tour 44/45, 75005 PARIS. FRANCE |e-mail: kbs@ccr.jussieu.fr
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