On Sat, 1 Aug 1998, bill bass wrote:

> Can somebody kindly tell me what is LINUX that I have been seeing so
> many times on the list.

LINUX is an Operating System that runs on PCs and other machines and a
strong U*ix flavor without being that. Excellent for learning &
programming, but slightly too new to be as widely accepted by software
makers as a potential market (that is changing however). Usually flies
loops around M$ products as to performance, and crashes very seldomly.
Used plenty among other things as web server foundation and ISP computer,
as well as excellent programming platform.

> Also, what does BTW stands for and bit banging means.

BTW is By The Way, and BTW, mark your non-PIC postings OT as you may be
flamed otherwise...

Bit banging is the general slang term for doing something in software that
should really be done in hardware. Example: serial routines written in
software without using a UART.

reagards,

        Peter