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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA381 ; Sun, 31 Jan 93 14:05:30 EST Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!think.com!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!csus.edu!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: 386BSD.EXE - Let DOS handle booting? Message-ID: <1993Jan31.225910.4097@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <BLYMN.93Jan23152157@siren.awadi.com.au> <1993Jan30.235814.11944@netcom.com> <PC123.93Jan31193045@apus.cus.cam.ac.uk> Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1993 22:59:10 GMT Lines: 43 In article <PC123.93Jan31193045@apus.cus.cam.ac.uk> pc123@cus.cam.ac.uk (Pete Chown) writes: >In article <1993Jan30.235814.11944@netcom.com> hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes: > > Have you ever heard of an option? [ to boot 386BSD from DOS ] > Let's make this VERY clear: There are many hardware manufacturers who > love to keep their hardware/software interfaces secret > > [ ... ] > > So for the folks who have common sense, lets just do it. [ add the > option ] > >Go and write it then. But remember, 386BSD is supposed to be a free >operating system. If it depends on a bootstrap loader that costs >money, then it will not be. And it will depend on it if you can't >otherwise run your hardware properly. >-- for a long time, people with Diamond Stealth were stuck just because we didn't know how to initialize their card. so think about it probably when they bought their card it cost $300. There are a lot of folks who already have dos, I do. So if you really wanted to use the Stealth back then, in the PD arena the best option was to initialize it under DOS. I was lucky I dump my Stealth very quickly and I am sad that I did not do the same with my qic80 Colorado Tape Drive. Total investment in incompatible hardware $550. again, I took my Stealth back so the total lost is know $250. Lets look at it from another angle, if you ask me to provide support for an obscure interface, you are asking for time and in my case time is money, I am a consultant. So its a balancing act... When I do something for 386bsd is because I love to do it :-) Regards, Amancio -- This message brought to you by the letters X and S and the number 3 Amancio Hasty | Home: (415) 495-3046 | ftp-site depository of all my work: e-mail hasty@netcom.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/incoming