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Xref: sserve comp.os.os2.programmer.misc:9980 comp.os.linux.development:9277 comp.os.minix:23775 comp.os.mach:3845 comp.periphs:5539 comp.unix.bsd:13996 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:6339 comp.os.386bsd.development:2143 comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc:5483 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!sgiblab!majipoor.cygnus.com!cambridge-news.cygnus.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!ai-lab!life.ai.mit.edu!bson From: bson@moomin.ai.mit.edu (Jan Brittenson) Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer.misc,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.minix,comp.os.mach,comp.periphs,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc Subject: Re: [Announcement] 386BSD Release 1.0 Date: 10 May 1994 10:54:21 GMT Organization: nope Lines: 42 Message-ID: <BSON.94May10055421@moomin.ai.mit.edu> References: <2q8qqr$q96@spool.cs.wisc.edu> <hastyCpE6Fq.5xF@netcom.com> <RICHK.94May6150902@netcom6.netcom.com> <BSON.94May9032234@moomin.ai.mit.edu> <1994May9.160517.16850@kf8nh.wariat.org> Reply-To: bson@ai.mit.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: moomin.ai.mit.edu In-reply-to: bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org's message of Mon, 9 May 1994 16:05:17 GMT In article <1994May9.160517.16850@kf8nh.wariat.org> bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) writes: > So he's got a 1542B, which apparently he (and I) should immediately > throw out and replace with 1542CF's. No thanks; it works as is. No, only that he shouldn't use yesterday's technology as today's yardstick. I too have some old hardware I'm quite happy with, and I use it with the knowledge that what's in the stores today is better in any way I care compare them. But I'm not posting to the net using my old hardware as a stencil for what can and can't be done. I run SVR4.0.3, but when I talk about SVR4 I mean the latest version: SVR4.2 or Solaris 2.[34]. What do you tell Linux users who say their networking code os unreliable? I'd tell them to get the latest version. What about people who use a six-month old Linux version as the yardstick for Linux? I'm sure you'd be a lot more insulting than you think I was in my refutal. > Is there some particular reason you need to be insulting about it? I was refuting the notion that the Adaptec 1540 can't boot from any ID, and noted that the latest version should be used as the yardstick. If you find that insulting, well, then that's really your problem, not mine. I have no idea whether the 1540 can boot from a CD; I never claimed it can, simply because I haven't tried it or seen it done. I see no reason to think it can't be done, so I reserve myself on that issue. My best clue to thinking it's probably doable is that Amancio Hasty, a hacker, not a net.speculator, says he's done it. But I have no direct knowledge on this issue, and have more important things to do than chatting on the phone with Adaptec's tech support. Nor do I care whether 386BSD really boots from CD or not. I have no interest in 386BSD. I have no financial or technical interest in it. I just don't care; please keep me out of that discussion. -- -- Jan Brittenson bson@ai.mit.edu