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In article <EGrnwy.JJo.0.bloor@torfree.net>,
Colin McGregor <aa005@torfree.net> wrote:
|Nabil Mohamed El-Khodari (ad613@torfree.net) wrote:
|: There is more in my bag, that I may see fit to publish, 
|: unless actually the board chose to answer the remaining question about 
|: the fate of the Sparc terminals that were offered for sale (while not 
|: providing the operating system for them in the package so as to deter any 
|: potential 'legitimate' buyer).... 
|
|The TFN has NEVER sold or disposed of ANY Sun SPARC machines. As well, the
|TFN has never offered for sale any Sun SPARC computers. The TFN has


	Scientific experiments have demonstrated that
	when placed in a sensory-deprivation environment,
	the human mind tries to compensate for the lack
	of real input by making up things to fill in the
	gap - of course such experiences are hallucinatory
	in nature, but it's hard for the subject to tell
	for certain... I suspect we may have an analogous
	situation here - perhaps Nabil has somehow become
	disconnected from everyday concerns & is forced to
	create problems due to lack of real-world stimulus.


|recieved and then donated four Motolorla Unix boxes to other community
|networking projects in southern Ontario, as well the TFN got an IBM AIX
|Unix box that was passed on to a community netowrking project in Manitoba,
|all of these machines were donated out of the TFN's hands over 1.5 years
|ago.  As for Unix for SPARCs well, Red Hat (www.redhat.com) will sell you
|a port of Linux (a Unix clone) for SPARCs for $189 (US), so lack of an OS
|would never be a serious issue.


	Actually NetBSD would be a better choice if one
	wished to use a freeware Unix for Sun boxes in
	a production environment (a cd is about $25).


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