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Date:      Wed, 14 Feb 2001 20:22:51 -0500
From:      Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net>
To:        mjacob@feral.com
Cc:        =?iso-8859-1?Q?G=E9rard?= Roudier <groudier@club-internet.fr>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: UDI environment now released.
Message-ID:  <3A8B2F6B.A514C0CE@bellatlantic.net>
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.21.0102141445540.22117-100000@zeppo.feral.com>

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Matthew Jacob wrote:
> 
> The problem is that at the time this was a huge issue there were a much larger
> number of machines and pieces of h/w and radically different OS's (or flavors
> within Unix even) to support. Such a wide set of differences is not really
> there any more, hence the cost of such support (and the style in which it is
> being done) makes less sense than it used to.

I'm afraid, it is. How many versions of FreeBSD with incompatible
driver interfaces are out there ? How many versions of Linux with
the same sort of incompatibilities ?

-SB


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