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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!cnn.nas.nasa.gov!lestat.nas.nasa.gov!thorpej From: thorpej@lestat.nas.nasa.gov (Jason R. Thorpe) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: NetBSD camp reaction to OpenBSD? Date: 4 Dec 1995 02:16:16 GMT Organization: Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation Project - NASA Ames Lines: 20 Message-ID: <49tllg$2fg@cnn.nas.nasa.gov> References: <30B6A790.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> <MICHAELV.95Nov26143135@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> <49cso4$4st@server.cs.vt.edu> <49lj23$kh3@park.uvsc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lestat.nas.nasa.gov Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:1524 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:10156 In article <49lj23$kh3@park.uvsc.edu>, Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> wrote: >ceharris@mal.com (Carl Harris) wrote: >] >] Maybe if we ignore it (OpenBSD) it will slip quietly into insignificance. > >i386 OpenBSD supports bounce buffers. NetBSD should roll in >the code. There are a number of technical reasons why NetBSD hasn't integrated that bounce buffer code, if I understand it's origins right. That's the same reason that NetBSD doesn't use FreeBSD's bounce buffer code. -- Jason R. Thorpe thorpej@nas.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center Home: 408.866.1912 NAS: M/S 258-6 Work: 415.604.0935 Moffett Field, CA 94035 Pager: 415.428.6939