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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!daily-planet.execpc.com!news.sol.net!news.inc.net!imci5!pull-feed.internetmci.com!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de!carlotta.iam.uni-bonn.de!volker From: volker@carlotta.iam.uni-bonn.de (Volker A. Brandt) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Curious about *BSD History Date: 12 Apr 1996 09:36:03 GMT Organization: Inst.f.Appl.Math., University of Bonn Lines: 29 Message-ID: <4kl863$rno@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> References: <4k1nue$lm8@orb.direct.ca> <3165791B.52BFA1D7@FreeBSD.org> <4kh916$1pa@cynic.portal.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: carlotta.iam.uni-bonn.de Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:17193 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2941 In article <4kh916$1pa@cynic.portal.ca> curt@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson) writes: >In article <3165791B.52BFA1D7@FreeBSD.org>, >Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > >>The NetBSD people wanted to run on as many >>platforms as they could, the FreeBSD people being more driven towards >>the goal of making *one* system as user friendly and generally useful >>as possible. >To someone with an Adaptec 1542 and a i486 with 24MB of RAM, NetBSD >has made some crippling decisions. On the other hand, if you own >anything but a PC, FreeBSD has made some crippling decisions. Indeed. I have the bounce-buffer problem. However, I also believe in portability, and have an Atari TT. There are always some tradeoffs involved. Having said that, when will bounce-buffer support be integrated in NetBSD-current? Thanks -- Volker -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- F.D.P. -- reimt sich auf BSE ... Volker A. Brandt Internet: volker@iam.uni-bonn.de Angewandte Mathematik Phone/FAX number available upon request (Bonn, Germany)