Re: 12.4 disc 1 iso is really large

From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve_at_sohara.org>
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2022 18:26:02 UTC 
On Sun, 11 Dec 2022 04:47:15 +1100
Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> wrote:

> Indeed.  Trev Roydhouse used to mail me his hand-me-down 4 CD Walnut
> Creek sets; we had 2.0.5 (?), 2.2.6 which enabled the nimnet.asn.au
> server in '98, later 3.something, 4.5 ...
> 
> OTOH that was an AMD 586 140MHz box with 2GB RAM and a 4GB hdd, later
> 20GB, with CDR later CD-RW, with 1 dialout and 3 dialup modems.
> 
> Nostalgia ain't what it used to be.

	Nostalgia was Jordan Hubbard handing me some 1.1 CDs after we gave
him a free dial up account in Ireland (no way was I going to charge *him*
we were running the ISP on FreeBSD).

	Nobody ever stepped up to the "voice of FreeBSD" plate after he
left.

-- 
Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>