From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Nov 19 15:41:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from nisser.com (c1870039.telekabel.chello.nl [212.187.0.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 452DC37B479; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 15:41:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from eboa.com (roelof [10.0.0.2]) by nisser.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id AAA17221; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 00:41:41 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from roelof@eboa.com) Message-ID: <3A186535.D525AA2A@eboa.com> Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 00:41:41 +0100 From: Roelof Osinga Organization: eboa - engineering buro Office Automation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Smith Cc: Brandon Fosdick , Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dangerously Dedicated References: <200011192138.eAJLcwF09621@mass.osd.bsdi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Smith wrote: > > ... > This is how the platform works. Deal with it. The PC (BIOS) platform, that is . Well, I for one can see that it could be considered a next logical step. And that most of the arguments to keep the status quo are 'for old times sake'. Costing of necessity maintenance time. All I pointed out was that instead of besides the dangerously dedicated notification a note stating that it will disappear R.S.N. would seem to be in order. Roelof -- http://BeerIsBitter.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message