From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 10 11:51:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA04517 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 11:51:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pcnet1.pcnet.com (eischen@pcnet1.pcnet.com [204.213.232.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA04509 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 11:51:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: by pcnet1.pcnet.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA10469; Wed, 10 Jul 96 14:47:16 EDT Date: Wed, 10 Jul 96 14:47:16 EDT From: eischen@vigrid.com (Daniel Eischen) Message-Id: <9607101847.AA10469@pcnet1.pcnet.com> To: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Some recent changes to GENERIC Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I'll compromise with you - we keep ed1, which I'm going to fold over > > since it seems so many WD/NE have a conflicting view of what a > > "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. > > One mouse, one modem, ports full. > > Now try to add anything. Think of how many serial gizmo's are out there. > Any home hacker has a mouse and modem, as an absolute freaking minimum. > Anybody doing anything interesting has more. Like... I feel like I don't belong here, but... I have to agree with Joe. How many people have internal modems on COM3/4? How about a PPP install for them? Dan Eischen eischen@pcnet.com