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From: volker@carlotta.iam.uni-bonn.de (Volker A. Brandt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Curious about *BSD History
Date: 12 Apr 1996 09:36:03 GMT
Organization: Inst.f.Appl.Math., University of Bonn
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In article <4kh916$1pa@cynic.portal.ca> curt@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson) writes:
>In article <3165791B.52BFA1D7@FreeBSD.org>,
>Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>
>>The NetBSD people wanted to run on as many
>>platforms as they could, the FreeBSD people being more driven towards
>>the goal of making *one* system as user friendly and generally useful
>>as possible.

>To someone with an Adaptec 1542 and a i486 with 24MB of RAM, NetBSD
>has made some crippling decisions. On the other hand, if you own
>anything but a PC, FreeBSD has made some crippling decisions.

Indeed.  I have the bounce-buffer problem. However, I also believe in
portability, and have an Atari TT.  There are always some tradeoffs
involved.

Having said that, when will bounce-buffer support be integrated in
NetBSD-current?


Thanks -- Volker


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