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From: "Amancio Hasty, Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: BSDI vs FreeBSD
Date: 11 Feb 1996 19:35:44 GMT
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thorpej@lestat.nas.nasa.gov (Jason R Thorpe) wrote:
>In article <4f86tp$5ki@atlas.uniserve.com>,
>Tom Samplonius <tom@uniserve.com> wrote:
>
>>  If that were only so.  You shoud say that BSDI supports different things.
>>BSDI does not have support for:
>>
>>  * Adaptec 2742, 2842, 2940
>>  * No PCI ethernet cards at all: including DEC based cards which FreeBSD
>>supports
>>  * No 100mbs ethernet support at all, including DEC and Intel cards which
>>FreeBSD supports
>
>Heh ... that's not what my BSD/OS 2.1 box says :-)  I guess I could have
>read it wrong, but I'm pretty certain they include Matt Thomas's DEC
>ethernet and FDDI drivers as well as the Adaptec 2940.

Is this the same FreeBSD hacker Matt Thomas 8)

	

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