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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!uuneo!sugar!peter 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$k5d@agate.berkeley.edu> Lines: 14 In article <1n5nhf$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>. `-_-' Oletko halannut suttasi tänään? 'U` Tarjoilija, tämä ateria elää vielä.