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From: jmonroy@netcom.com (Jesus Monroy Jr)
Subject: [386BSD] device drivers
Message-ID: <1993Feb14.004437.13322@netcom.com>
Keywords: device drivers 386bsd fdc qic 
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Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1993 00:44:37 GMT
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I appoligize if this is a resend... I have not quite a hold of my Pnews
yet.
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To all 386BSDers
 
        "Surviving depends upon quality, flexibility, and constant
         innovation, which inturn depends upon people."
 
                                     -Tom Peters
                                      "Thriving on Chaos",p.344
 
 
        Now that I have finally got a reliable e-mail drop (thank God
        for Netcom), I can relay to all of you what I am going to do
        and who I am.
 
                When Bill Jolitz was making the tours (talks), I happened
        to be at an SVNET meeting. After his talk I was quite excited, I
        had been preparing for this type of enterprise since the
        announcement of the Intel i386.  Although not the best of chips
        or designs, it promised the best comprimise in "buck for bang"
        and I knew then as I do today it is going to be a powerful force
        in tomorrows' technologies.
                Initally I offered my help to Bill, but he stated (at
        the time) that he had over 200 people volunteered for various
        projects and my particular idea was taken.
                After more that a year and amist many vile rumors, I was
        able to contact Bill and Lynn again and my help was readily
        accepted. However, my e-mail contact with them was at best a
        disaster.
                My e-mail went out through a friends' account and was
        labeled to reply to me through a different machine. Sometime
        later my friend filed for separation, divorce, and bankruptcy,
        which put my mail status into a black-hole.   I proceeded to get
        service on the SVNET machine, unfortunately, my good friend Paul
        Fromberg was literally putting out fires at SUN Microsystems at
        the time and as the SYS Administrator, he could offer no help
        beyond a log-on account.   Frustrated, one day at a PC Unix
        users group meeting of the SVNET, Amancio Hasty was demoing and
        explaining his patches to the X-Windows system.  I explained my
        situation to him.  He suggested NETCOM.COM.  I now have a
        porthole to the world with NETCOM.
 
                In a few days I will post problems with the FDC, the LP,
        and the use of the QIC-40/80 through the FDC.  I will address
        issues relevant to all device drivers and with your help, as
        protagonists, 386BSD will be and do everything you want it to.
                I am not depending on a team of 30 or 40 paid personel,
        but a cast of hundreds of unpaid volunteer people, like
        yourselves.   If you have any doubt as to the number and
        diversity, watch the newsgroup(s) daily for about two weeks.
        There is no corner of the world where 386BSD is not in operation.
 
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        I will post more info in a few days at the FDC on
 
        comp.unix.bsd
        comp.os.386bsd.development (when it comes on-line)
 
        I am will post new code in a few days also at FTP sites.
 
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        People interested in helping with the FDC and QIC-40/80
        should e-mail me.
        I am also starting a FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) list
        for the devices I mentioned.