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Date:      Fri, 09 May 1997 10:25:54 -0400
From:      dennis <dennis@etinc.com>
To:        Tim Tsai <tim@futuresouth.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>, Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@cdsnet.net>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: if_de.c ????
Message-ID:  <3.0.32.19970509102539.00baf1a8@etinc.com>

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At 09:40 PM 5/8/97 -0500, Tim Tsai wrote:
>> But for me, the $10,000 question now is: Now that Tim and Jaye have
>> made so much noise about the difficulty of finding paid labor to hack
>> on things like the de driver, are either of them actually going to
>> follow through on this or was that all just about making noise and
>> little else? ;-)
>
>  Hey, I resemble that remark.
>
>  We are buying the Intel boards and be done with it!  We've sent a de
>board out to somebody (too lazy to see who it was) though.  Besides, it
>looks like Matt *IS* intending to support the de boards on FreeBSD, so
>perhaps whoever is working on this should coordinate with him.  I blame
>this whole thing on Digital, really, for changing enough of the chip to
>break things to start with.  :-)
>
>  BTW, I did write to some of the consultants on the web page.  Nobody
>replied.  Afraid it's too little too late for us on the de driver.  I will
>know where to ask next time though!
>
>  I think the moral of the story is to not trust the supported hardware
>list and just buy whatever cdrom.com uses.
>
>  Tim

I think that the real moral is....don't stock too much stuff, cause you
might get
stuck with it.

db



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