From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jul 16 16:26:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA11142 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 16:26:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mole.mole.org (marmot.mole.org [204.216.57.191]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA11125; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 16:26:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mail@localhost) by mole.mole.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) id XAA28224; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 23:20:12 GMT Received: from meerkat.mole.org(206.197.192.110) by mole.mole.org via smap (V1.3) id sma028222; Tue Jul 16 23:20:12 1996 Received: (from mrm@localhost) by meerkat.mole.org (8.6.11/8.6.9) id QAA21999; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 16:20:11 -0700 Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 16:20:11 -0700 From: "M.R.Murphy" Message-Id: <199607162320.QAA21999@meerkat.mole.org> To: gpalmer@FreeBSD.org, se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940 PCI-SCSI on Compaq ProLinea 5100 Cc: conta@alpo.casc.com, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Which is (IMNSHO) is *EXTREMELY* shortshighted of ANY company ... how > many ``high end'' OS's rely on the crappy PC bios for I/O? I'm not > meaning the M$ stuff, I'm meaning the true UN*X stuff (e.g. Solaris, > SCO, FreeBSD. Sorry, maybe I shouldn't have said UN*X :-) ). It > basically means that Compaq hardware is limited to running M$ stuff, > which is cutting out other people from the game ... has Compaq been > bought out by M$, perhaps? :) > (money spent on non-M$ stuff) + (money spent on M$ stuff) --------------------------------------------------------- = 1 (money spent on M$ stuff) More's the pity, but the money talks. That makes it not necessarily shortsighted from a business standpoint :-( The good of it is that there's a driving force for less expensive, more powerful hardware to run M$ (and it's required), and other OS's get to ride the coattails. -- Mike Murphy mrm@Mole.ORG +1 619 598 5874 Better is the enemy of Good