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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!lll-winken.llnl.gov!ames!newsfeed.gsfc.nasa.gov!news!kstailey From: kstailey@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov (Kenneth Stailey) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Why isn't NetBSD popular? Date: 22 Aug 1995 04:22:18 GMT Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center -- Greenbelt, Maryland USA Lines: 18 Message-ID: <KSTAILEY.95Aug22002218@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov> References: <DDACyE.CBt@seas.ucla.edu> <40nj98$8g2@news.belwue.de> <40rpge$fta@orion.cc.andrews.edu> <40uan1$4tb@palmer.demon.co.uk> <40ujor$8f1@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov In-reply-to: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu's message of 17 Aug 1995 05:23:39 GMT Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:845 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:4991 In article <40ujor$8f1@agate.berkeley.edu> jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes: This philosophy doesn't just stop at the "user land" code boundry. For example, some people often wonder why FreeBSD has bounce buffer support and NetBSD does not. I'll tell you why. It's because I noticed the deficiency over a year ago and said "This sucks! All these people out there with Adaptec 1542 adapters trying to run with >16MB of memory are positively wailing about having corrupted their systems! This is totally unacceptable!" And then I went and practically brow-beat (well, maybe not "practically", I *did* brow beat) poor John Dyson and David Greenman into fixing it right then and there. They're still a little annoyed at me to this day about it, but I make no apologies for standing up for what I felt to be a very critical bit of missing functionality. You mean if I bitched hard enough I could get them to make FreeBSD work on my Sun3/60? :-) ~Ken