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From: jmonroy@netcom.com (Jesus Monroy Jr)
Subject: Status of FDC Driver for *BSD
Message-ID: <jmonroyCFvw53.H6K@netcom.com>
Keywords: FDC BSD
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1993 21:39:02 GMT
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status of FDC driver
My friends,
the rumors that BSDI has sent hitmen after me
has been quite unfounded. The truth is I am alive and well
here in RWC. I have made several promises which I must now
contend with. The first is to my self. I promise not to
live in a cave and wear clean clothes once in a while. I also
promised to speak to the PC Unix users group of the SVNET.
The FDC driver is done. It works. It lives with the
flaws of the components that respond to it.
So why haven't any of you seen the FDC driver?
Basically the assumptions made about the UNIX and the
conventions, as to it's operations, continue to hamper our
channels.
You wonder if I'm just making this up or exaggerate
for pity. Far from it. We've all seen a decline in the
articles posted to comp.os.386bsd.*, while the C.O.L.* groups
continue in the bickering.
The crux is this we all expect the PC, this silly
boxed over-grown Altair, to miraculously accept and behave
well with all play things. Well, it doesn't and we know it.
None the less we (the developers) are expected to make this
work, somehow.
I presented the idea, not too long ago, that the RTC
needs to be fixed. Many people agreed, but we're still
here.
Fate is depriving us of the further intention at this
point. And the hopeless backwardness of Unix is the detention
and the convention. We want 4.3 with the bells and
whistles of todays' invention, but we are unwilling to make
the jump. I related this problem to a friend with the help
of an old mainframer. He must of understood the problem
because the next day he wrote this:
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High Priority
High priority, 3 years too late
in the making the hypothetical state.
To catch the salmon spawning out of season
could wash away, untie, anticipate (for any reason)
Bringing up a good point
Sodom and Gomorrah on the rise
penetrating every orifice.
Government computers crippled, paralyzed
speaking insufficient language.
To achieve the missing link
could mean disaster -- a silicon prison.
IBM in sink.
Imminent, inevitable, someday.
But with political maelstrom
and the inability to harmonize
we remain a ghost to the system,
innocent until proven otherwise.
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Jesus Monroy Jr jmonroy@netcom.com
Zebra Research
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