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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