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#! rnews 1967 sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!news.sprintlink.net!demon!btnet!uunet!in1.uu.net!anshar.shadow.net!anshar.shadow.net!nobody From: jc@anshar.shadow.net (Justin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Commerical OS's (was Re: aha0: DMA beyond end of ISA) Date: 10 May 1995 01:12:22 -0400 Organization: Shadow Information Services, Inc. Lines: 31 Message-ID: <3ophvm$9md@anshar.shadow.net> References: <3o833b$9qe@anshar.shadow.net> <3oapjc$dg9@sundog.tiac.net> <VIXIE.95May4101012@gw.home.vix.com> <CGD.95May4181623@LAGAVULIN.PDL.CS.CMU.EDU> <3oec67$93j@helena.MT.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: anshar.shadow.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Nate Williams (nate@trout.sri.MT.net) wrote: : In article <CGD.95May4181623@LAGAVULIN.PDL.CS.CMU.EDU>, : Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@LAGAVULIN.PDL.CS.CMU.EDU> wrote: : >>> Do you have >16MB RAM in your system? ISA can only address 16MB, and : >>>NetBSD doesn't make allowances for that. : >> : >>That's wild. BSD/OS and FreeBSD fixed this a long long long time ago. : > : .... : >If people want things to be fixed, they should propose and : >implement fixes for them. : This is *exactly* the reason why free OS's are *not* for the masses. : Chris has *every* right to respond this way. No one who can fix the : problem has taken the time to implement a fix, and those who want it : can't do the fix. : Yes, you can hire someone to fix it for you, but when you can buy Solaris : x86 for $99 and it costs more than have a consultant fix NetBSD, why bother? : >If users don't fix problems, and those problems don't affect the : >developers, then it's not likely they'll be fixed. : Couldn't have made the point any better. This point would be moot if NetBSD supported the PCI Adaptec SCSI adapter, so I wouldn't have to use the ISA adapter :) Any ideas on the ETA for the adapter support or the >16MB RAM ISA fix? -jc