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From: miguel@sphinx.nuclecu.unam.mx (Miguel de Icaza)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Curious about *BSD History
Date: 17 Apr 1996 17:46:14 -0500
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> ISA busses, such as those on Amigas and Alphas. As a result, we
> still don't have bounce buffer support, though it is being actively
> worked on, and I suspect it will appear later this year.

The OpenBSD kernel has bounce buffers.  As someone said, OpenBSD
kernel is close to NetBSD kernel, so you will feel about the same when
booting it :-).

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