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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Curious about *BSD History Date: 13 Apr 1996 12:04:43 GMT Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM, Concord, California Lines: 16 Message-ID: <4ko58r$4l4@reason.cdrom.com> References: <4k1nue$lm8@orb.direct.ca> <3165791B.52BFA1D7@freebsd.org> <4kh916$1pa@cynic.portal.ca> <4kl863$rno@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> <1996Apr12.210743.28292@wavehh.hanse.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:17342 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3010 In article <1996Apr12.210743.28292@wavehh.hanse.de>, cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer) writes: >I can't resist, sorry, but let me say that you bought a machine and a >SCSI controller that cannot use more than 16 MB of RAM. Now you put 24 >MB of RAM in it and want your OS to fix it. Mumble... Sure. And what's wrong with that? Having the OS compensate for limitations in the hardware is an entirely reasonable thing to do, assuming it's not too difficult or paradigm- warping (and this wasn't), and if none of that took place at all then UNIX on Intel would be a much bleaker landscape indeed, let me assure you. The user is not always right, but more often right than not. Jordan