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From: jmonroy@netcom.com (Jesus Monroy Jr)
Subject: Re: 386BSD Remarkable? (was Re: Call for 386BSD Rel.1.0 SIG (Special Interest Group))
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References: <FOO-MAN.94Aug23191512@raven.raven.csrv.uidaho.edu> <jmonroyCv2Iw2.AD9@netcom.com> <1994Aug25.074246.4082@cs.brown.edu> <Cv5u8o.CEn@calcite.rhyolite.com> <1994Aug27.175807.20821@cs.brown.edu>
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 1994 23:53:15 GMT
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Mark Weaver (mhw@cs.brown.edu) wrote:
: In article <Cv5u8o.CEn@calcite.rhyolite.com>,
: Vernon Schryver <vjs@calcite.rhyolite.com> wrote:
: >In article <1994Aug25.074246.4082@cs.brown.edu> mhw@cs.brown.edu (Mark Weaver) writes:
: >> ...
: >>I'm not saying that 386BSD 0.1 wasn't a remarkable accomplishment.
: >>It *WAS*. If it wasn't for his work, we'd probably all be using
: >>Linux right now. ....
: >
: > [...]
: >
: > [...]
: >Before you praise 386BSD 0.1, boot it. Remember how easy it was to
: >crash the tinybsd floppy? Remember how much of a mess it was to install
: >on a hard disk? It was perhaps more than you'd expect from the first
: >3-12 weeks of a porting job, which would be fine except that that was
: >all there ever was. The "dog (disk crash) ate my homework" story was
: >ok for a few weeks, but smelled bad after 6 months.
: Since the hardware on the PC architecture is so varying and
: unreliable, it seems to be very difficult to write robust drivers
: that work for everyone. I think you're being a little unfair.
:
I whole heartedly disagree.
I've written a PC driver for 386bsd.
I here by challenge someone to break my driver.
Hell, I be very happy if someone could break it.
It's available at
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Jesus Monroy Jr jmonroy@netcom.com
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