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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!agate!news.ucdavis.edu!boris!fzshenau From: fzshenau@boris.ucdavis.edu (Gregory Shenaut) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: BSDI vs Win NT and netscape commerce server Date: 14 Dec 1995 15:56:17 GMT Organization: University of California, Davis Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4aphf1$11m@mark.ucdavis.edu> References: <4aku63$4bd@news.nstn.ca> <4aoi41$p4r@news.voicenet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: boris.ucdavis.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 900RR (900RR) wrote: : jwebster@fox.nstn.ca (jwebster) wrote: : also, new hardware boards like PCI 100Mbps ethernet cards, are going : to be supported under NT well before they will be supported in any : unix. Maybe not in ALL cases. But if the OEM is writing the driver : code, you can bet the farm that the focus and effort will be on the NT : support first, everyone else a (quite distant) second. Well, I do not think that this is a situation that the hardware developers like--after all, it reduces the size of the market in which they can sell their boards. It takes a lot of time to develop some of these drivers--once they have a DOS driver, a W95 driver, an NT drivers,, I agree that there isn't a lot left over for various *nix drivers. This is why I sincerely hope that the ongoing efforts to create a standard for universal drivers, implemented in a subset of Forth and installed on the boards in ROM, succeed. -- Greg Shenaut -- gkshenaut@ucdavis.edu