From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 10 11:34:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA03385 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 11:34:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from horst.bfd.com (horst.bfd.com [204.160.242.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA03379 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 11:34:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harlie (bastion.bfd.com [204.160.242.2]) by horst.bfd.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA18499; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 11:32:01 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 11:32:31 -0700 (PDT) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" X-Sender: ejs@harlie To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Joe Greco , davidg@Root.COM, dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au, SimsS@Infi.Net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Some recent changes to GENERIC In-Reply-To: <4462.837016183@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 10 Jul 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > "standard setting" is. sio2/3 have already gone and I can hardly > accept the argument that 4 port PCs are any kind of norm. I've seen > literally hundreds of different PC configurations and in all but a few > very rare cases, it's always the same 2 ser/1 par/1 game combo. Agreed with on machines coming off the shelf that way, but most people I know that add an internal modem add it as com3/irq5, since they don't have to figure out how to disable a comm port. which isn't 4 port, but it also isn't two port.