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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!pipex!uknet!festival!edcogsci!richard From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) Subject: Re: HELP: installing netbsd+64mb RAM+adaptec Message-ID: <Cz9J3I.EyC@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh References: <39vogs$78p@dagny.galt.com> <MICHAELV.94Nov11143004@mindbender.headcandy.com> <3a1f98$pil@pdq.coe.montana.edu> Date: Mon, 14 Nov 1994 15:02:05 GMT Lines: 14 In article <3a1f98$pil@pdq.coe.montana.edu> nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes: >Saying that something is a *hack* implies that it's either done badly or >quickly, which is not the case for the bounce buffers in FreeBSD. I think you're being over-sensitive. Bounce buffers are a hack because their only purpose is to overcome a limitation of an obsolete design. -- Richard -- Richard Tobin, HCRC, Edinburgh University R.Tobin@ed.ac.uk Ooooh! I didn't know we had a king. I thought we were an autonomous collective.