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Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940 PCI-SCSI on Compaq ProLinea 5100
To: gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG (Gary Palmer)
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 19:08:17 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: se@zpr.uni-koeln.de, conta@alpo.casc.com, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG,
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In-Reply-To: <3481.837555465@orion.webspan.net> from "Gary Palmer" at Jul 16, 96 06:17:45 pm
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As Gary Palmer wrote...

> > But what they didn't care about was, that
> > the required workaround might break support
> > for other systems. They don't bother, since
> > they know their drivers are only used with
> > their machines. But we hardly want to have
> > a special FreeBSD version just for Compaq
> > machines ... :)
> 
> 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,

People get filty rich by just doing mainstream (read: M$ stuff). Why
bother with niche markets?

It's sad, true...

> 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? :)
> 
> Gary

Wilko 'The Devils Attorney' 
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