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On the same page on HN there's another Wasabi that's a fire alarm for deaf people.
by reiichiroh 9y ago
On the same page on HN there's another Wasabi that's a fire alarm for deaf people.
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- WasabiRichard 9y agoThis is Richard: a product manager with Wasabi sorry to say that we don't also make the fire alarms. That would be cool technology to work on though!
- toyg 9y agoAnd I'm old enough to remember Wasabi as the proprietary vb-to-php compiler that FogCreek developed for a few years. And I think there was something related to OpenBSD or NetBSD, some company called Wasabi System...? It's definitely one of the most common codenames in IT, together with Phoenix, Firebird and Panda (and in the enterprise, all greek/roman gods).
- bch 9y agoNetBSD, and also storage related[0], confusingly enough. Wasabi brought journaling (WAPBL[1]) to NetBSD. [0] http://www.wasabisystems.com/ http://www.wasabisystems.com/ [1] http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?wapbl++NetBSD-current http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?wapbl++NetBSD-current
- dang 9y agoSometimes people make these as copycat posts, which is not the best kind of post, but I figure HN can handle a lot of wasabi.