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From: fzshenau@boris.ucdavis.edu (Gregory Shenaut)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: BSDI vs Win NT and netscape commerce server
Date: 14 Dec 1995 15:56:17 GMT
Organization: University of California, Davis
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900RR (900RR) wrote:
: jwebster@fox.nstn.ca (jwebster) wrote:

: also, new hardware boards like PCI 100Mbps ethernet cards, are going
: to be supported under NT well before they will be supported in any
: unix. Maybe not in ALL cases. But if the OEM is writing the driver
: code, you can bet the farm that the focus and effort will be on the NT
: support first, everyone else a (quite distant) second. 

Well, I do not think that this is a situation that the hardware
developers like--after all, it reduces the size of the market in
which they can sell their boards.  It takes a lot of time to
develop some of these drivers--once they have a DOS driver,
a W95 driver, an NT drivers,, I agree that there isn't a lot
left over for various *nix drivers.  This is why I sincerely
hope that the ongoing efforts to create a standard for universal
drivers, implemented in a subset of Forth and installed on the
boards in ROM, succeed.



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Greg Shenaut -- gkshenaut@ucdavis.edu