Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 09:24:38 -0500 (EST) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@kryten.Atinc.COM> To: Mark Newton <newton@communica.com.au> Cc: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, scrappy@hub.org, grog@lemis.de, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding New Hard Drives: A Major Complaint Message-ID: <Pine.3.89.9511210921.A1055-0100000@kryten.atinc.com> In-Reply-To: <9511210542.AA14290@communica.com.au>
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On Tue, 21 Nov 1995, Mark Newton wrote: > Michael Smith wrote: > > > Amancio Hasty Jr. stands accused of saying: > > > fdisk/disklabel Pretty lame if you ask me -- perhaps we should required > > > FreeBSD to be booted by IBM Punch Cards.... > > > > I can do that, if I can find the guy around here with the card hardware. > > <laugh> You can't even get your half-inch tape drive working with FreeBSD. > Why should we sit back and assume you can get us booting from punch-cards? > :-) HEY! i got a Kennedy 9612 1/2-inch 9-track tape drive here that works very well, thank you. > [ Hey! At least we'd then have a device that we support which Linux doesn't > <grin> ] so we do have a device that we support which Linux doesn't <GRIN> Jonathan M. Bresler jmb@kryten.atinc.com | Analysis & Technology, Inc. FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.Org | 2341 Jeff Davis Hwy play go. | Arlington, VA 22202 ride bike. hack FreeBSD.--ah the good life | 703-418-2800 x346
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