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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!news-in.tiac.net!posterchild!news@tiac.net From: tarbet@swaa.com (Margaret Tarbet) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: FBSD and EISA machines Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 18:16:13 GMT Organization: Software Art & Architecture Incorporated Lines: 39 Message-ID: <324ac5e5.4422121@news.tiac.net> Reply-To: tarbet@swaa.com NNTP-Posting-Host: momcat.tiac.net X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99e/16.227 I think that not-so-long-ago i started to read a discussion, or maybe it was only a contention, that FBSD doesn't really take advantage of EISA address space; that anything over 16Mb is just as useless as under DOS. I wish i could go back and finish reading it, but it seems to be gone from the list and it is certainly gone from my (now-defunct) winnie. Can anyone (maybe from the hacker group) refresh my head about this? It sounds fishy on the face of it, but if there's anything to it, it'd be good to know since i favor Gang-of-Nine machines. =margaret .......................................................... Margaret Tarbet Software Art & Architecture Incorporated Post Box 390 209, Cambridge Massachusetts USA net: tarbet@swaa.com; vox: +1-617-438-8647, fax: +1-617-438-4574 Comprehensive, Experienced, and Creative Marketability/Usability Design and Review Local or Long Distance. Satisfaction Guaranteed. ............................................................ "The results [of the 1965 experiment that sent waves of anger and fear through the scientific and political communities] raise the possibility that ... American democratic society cannot be counted on to insulate its citizens from brutality and inhumane treatment at the direction of malevolent authority. A substantial proportion of people do what they are told to do, irrespective of the content of the act and without limitations of conscience, so long as they perceive that the command comes from a legitimate authority. If in this study an anonymous experimenter could substantially command adults to subdue a fifty-year-old man, and force on him painful [and potentially lethal] electric shocks against his protests, one can only wonder what government, with its vastly greater authority and prestige, can command of its subjects." -- Dr. Stanley Milgram, American social psychologist, 1968