From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 29 16:01:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA16734 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 29 Sep 1997 16:01:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from usr09.primenet.com (tlambert@usr09.primenet.com [206.165.6.209]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA16727 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 1997 16:01:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr09.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA18099; Mon, 29 Sep 1997 16:00:26 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199709292300.QAA18099@usr09.primenet.com> Subject: Re: INB question To: tony@dell.com (Tony Overfield) Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 23:00:24 +0000 (GMT) Cc: Shimon@i-Connect.Net, tlambert@primenet.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3.0.2.32.19970929030500.006ff1c0@bugs.us.dell.com> from "Tony Overfield" at Sep 29, 97 03:05:00 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > This was first hooked up this way back in 1981 when the first IBM PC > came out. This has been working the same way for over 15 years. > They had no way to know that it would suddenly become a problem for > Terry in late 1997. Or anyone else programming an MCA DMA register. > They probably didn't even realize that the circuit > lacked "vision," since they had no idea they were laying the > foundations of such a colossal legacy. Heh. Because they lacked "vision"... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.