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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:12334 comp.os.386bsd.misc:3188 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!swrinde!news.uh.edu!uuneo.neosoft.com!Starbase.NeoSoft.COM!nobody From: peter@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Whats wrong with Linux networking ??? Date: 13 Aug 1994 19:31:56 -0500 Organization: NeoSoft Internet Services +1 713 684 5969 Lines: 17 Message-ID: <32jols$bjb@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> References: <325760$rc9@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <RSANDERS.94Aug9003813@hrothgar.mindspring.com> <CuA6w1.5tF@calcite.rhyolite.com> <32cs6g$l9t@klaava.helsinki.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: starbase.neosoft.com In article <32cs6g$l9t@klaava.helsinki.fi>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@cc.Helsinki.FI> wrote: >Inherently stupid, and probably only done >because the original machines had priority-coded interrupts. Similarly >for disklabels. You think disklabels are bad, you ought to try working on a Xenix 3.x system. System III based, and all the partition tables hardcoded in the kernel! I just spent much of last week on the phone to New York helping a customer restore some files from a series of Xenix disks because they'd blown away the root partition and had NO BACKUPS of the system disk. It involved guessing at likely partition tables and talking them through the process... At least it convinced them to switch to System V... That leaves just two customers using Xenix. (yeah!)