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From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: 386BSD vs BSDI
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1993 12:41:19 GMT
Message-ID: <C3F1wy.FGG@sugar.neosoft.com>
References: <1n0mgmINNjat@ftp.UU.NET> <1993Mar3.120727.11788@igor.tamri.com> <1n5nhf$k5d@agate.berkeley.edu>
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In article <1n5nhf$k5d@agate.berkeley.edu> bostic@toe.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Bostic) writes:
> If you don't want to be, for example, device driver compatible with
> other variants of UNIX, your statement is correct.  If you have no
> interest in trying to convince the rest of the world that they should
> rewrite all of their device drivers, the functionality of biowait/iowait
> is fixed, and cannot be changed.

Bingo. This is exactly why I don't want to see a whole new driver interface
in 386BSD 0.2.
-- 
Peter da Silva.  <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
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