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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!news.umbc.edu!eff!news.kei.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!grapevine.lcs.mit.edu!lynx!random.ccs.northeastern.edu!news From: jtsilla@denali.ccs.northeastern.edu (James Tsillas) Subject: Re: [FreeBSD 1.0e] Kernel's bss has grown up In-Reply-To: hasty@netcom.com's message of Mon, 8 Nov 1993 02: 23:58 GMT Message-ID: <JTSILLA.93Nov8104426@denali.ccs.northeastern.edu> Sender: news@random.ccs.northeastern.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: denali.ccs.neu.edu Organization: College of CS, Northeastern University References: <MYCROFT.93Nov6093036@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <1993Nov7.101416.26351@emba.uvm.edu> <CGD.93Nov7174549@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU> <hastyCG5Inz.C66@netcom.com> Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1993 15:44:26 GMT Lines: 39 In article <hastyCG5Inz.C66@netcom.com> hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes: Hi guys, This kind of bashing back and forth does not help either one of your respective group. If you want to win over your opponent, deploy key technology and leverage of it. For instance, loadable modules, it would be cool to have an auto configuration tool to exploit this feature. Right on with the first comment! For users of these OS's (people like me who depend on them for their daily work) it's kind of scary to see this sort of things. Makes me want to go out and shell out money for SCO :-( (no, I'm not THAT scared!). How about working together on coming up with an even better buffering scheme or perhaps do away with the buffer scheme altogether and implement a memory mapped fs like I have on my Sun (please don't respond with "you have the source go ahead and do it", all I'm asking is for what are obviously two talented programmers to put their heads together rather than against each other). Take the XFree86 project as an example of a free software project which started out as separate efforts but (through the participation of some dedicated person) merged and went on to better things. Do you think that project didn't have competition? It did, but it was healthy and the result was a stronger piece of software. [Some things deleted] regards, -Jim. -- *** James Tsillas jtsilla@ccs.neu.edu *** *** Work: (508)898-2800, Home: (617)641-0513 *** *** "He is after me. Jim is after him." *** *** - Hop on Pop, Dr. Seuss ***