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From: j@uriah.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Impressions: FreeBSD vs Linux
Date: 28 Apr 1994 18:46:46 +0200
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bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
[use dosemu or vm86() to initialize an SVGA]
>Your way would work with unmodified XFree86; just run the BIOS setup as the
>clock-setting program. His way requires changes to XFree86 which the XFree86
>developers have *already* refused to make...
Well, XFree developers are no gods, and if something is really useful
and makes live easier, they certainly won't object doing so. What they
don't do is to follow the patch-of-the-minute.
--
cheers, J"org work: joerg_wunsch@tcd-dresden.de
private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.sax.de
Steinbach's Guideline for Systems Programming:
Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle.