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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uunet!virtech!dwex From: dwex@aib.com (David E. Wexelblat) Subject: Re: Status on discussed merge between NetBSD and FreeBSD Message-ID: <CGJDFu.D2v@aib.com> Organization: AIB Software, Inc. References: <CGD.93Nov14105344@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU> <CGIB20.7xs@aib.com> <DERAADT.93Nov14233243@sun-lamp.agate> Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1993 13:57:30 GMT Lines: 36 In article <DERAADT.93Nov14233243@sun-lamp.agate> deraadt@fsa.ca (Theo de Raadt) writes: >In article <CGIB20.7xs@aib.com> dwex@aib.com (David E. Wexelblat) writes: > There WAS a task force that was going to try to > resolve all of this for us - to come up with a single common API > for the console driver. But your bloody egos couldn't even accomplish > that much - one subset of ioctl()s on one device. > > >Note that there wasn't even one NetBSD member on the "task force" >(a mailing list managed by Julian, if I remember.) > > >I had opinions, but never expressed them (except to say that NetBSD >supports the excellent work Hellmuth has done with pcvt, which will >very soon have the same X ioctl()'s that syscons has.) > > >You must be talking about someone else's ego here, not Chris's or >Charles, or mine. > Actually, I'm talking about the entire BSD-du-jour (for Intel) development community, which could not come to consensus on something so simple. -- David Wexelblat <dwex@aib.com> (703) 430-9247 Fax: (703) 450-4560 AIB Software, Inc., 46030 Manekin Plaza, Suite 160, Dulles, VA 20166 Formerly Virtual Technologies, Inc. Mail regarding XFree86 should be sent to <xfree86@physics.su.oz.au> "Ooh, are you feelin' satisfied? Come on, let us give your mind a ride." -- Boston, "Feelin' Satisfied"