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From: deraadt@fsa.ca (Theo de Raadt)
Subject: Re: my bug list
In-Reply-To: terry@cs.weber.edu's message of Tue, 30 Mar 93 00: 36:56 GMT
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In article <1993Mar30.003656.2601@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
>It IS possible to probe that card! Linux does it, Xenix does it, *ETC*.
>If 386BSD does not, THEN IT IS BUSTED.
One of these supports soloution 2; the other makes assumptions about what
hardware is present rather than relying on a probe to provide an accurate
ardware inventory.
You might as well make the argument that 386BSD is "BUSTED" because it runs
in protected mode and can therefore not support the BIOS calls that allow
Diamond SpeedStar hardware to be used in high resoloution modes usable in
DOS; after all:
"It IS possible to use HiRes modes on that card! AutoCAD does it,
MS-Windows does it, *ETC*. If 386BSD does not, THEN IT IS BUSTED."
This is clearly an invalid argument.
Straw Man. (or red herring?)
That's not a hardware issue.
Kind of funny how I've been making kernel changes and am getting a lot
closer to being able to do exactly what you said was impossible Terry.
<tdr.
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