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From: "Koster, K.J." <K.J.Koster@kpn.com>
Subject: Borg SRM? (was: Lynx test / 2nd attempt)
To: 'Wilko Bulte' <wkb@freebie.demon.nl>,
	Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
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Dear All,

I can't resist dripping a little oil on the fire. I'll be accepting flames
for that in the next ten minutes.

> 
> > 
> > Who has an Alpha that can recognize their controller in
> > AlphaBIOS or ARC, but not in SRM?
> 
> Next to everybody: Adaptec 29xx come to mind.
>
Ok, how about a wrapper around SRM, delegating all the do-thing-quickly
tasks to the real and untarnisched SRM, but adding hooks for the more
mundane task of getting the first few blocks off a controller that SRM
pretends isn't there.

It would leave SRM untouched, so you'd have no license issues. All you do is
reroute a few interrupt vectors (he added, blissfully unaware of SRM's real
implementation).

    Kees Jan

================================================
 You are only young once,
       but you can stay immature all your life.


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