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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: SCSI diskIO
Date: 24 Aug 1995 14:23:19 +0200
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Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@cloud9.net> wrote:

>You also -- IMHO -- *don't* want to have to debug the NetBSD/FreeBSD
>NCR driver if it breaks.  It makes extensive use of self-modifying
>code.  In fact, both the code running on the host CPU and the code
>running on the NCR modify the code that runs on the NCR.  This is 
>unpleasant to contemplate.

Why should i want to?  Stefan Esser's answers always returned in time.
-- 
cheers, J"org                      private:   joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
                                   http://www.sax.de/~joerg/

Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)