From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 10 13:06:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA28543 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 10 Nov 1997 13:06:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.5.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA28538 for ; Mon, 10 Nov 1997 13:06:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr05.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA26071; Mon, 10 Nov 1997 14:06:31 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr05.primenet.com(206.165.6.205) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpd026060; Mon Nov 10 14:06:24 1997 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA16644; Mon, 10 Nov 1997 14:06:22 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199711102106.OAA16644@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Newest Pentium bug (fatal) To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 21:06:21 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, helbig@Informatik.BA-Stuttgart.DE, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <16846.879194422@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Nov 10, 97 12:40:22 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Perhaps if the source tree were reorganized to be more multiple > > architecture friendly, progress would speed up? > > No, if we had more people with ALPHAs and who actually understood the > design of the "Miata" it would help more than anything else. Even > with all the architecture friendliness in the world, we still wouldn't > have this key ingredient. Well, since I own a "Multia" and not a "Miata", I don't really get how understanding the "Miata" would help me port to the "Multia", so perhaps you could explain it to me... > As usual, you're grossly oversimplifying > the problem in order to grind your usual set of axes. As SEF would say, "Pot. Kettle. Black.". There's a very simple way to keep me from grinding axes: take them away from me, leaving me nothing to grind. If you weren't always such an immovable object, then I wouldn't have to try to be an irresistable force to get you to move... I will be the first to admit that activity does not imply action ("Never substitute activity for action" -- Seneca, 4th century BC), but inactivity *does* imply inaction. If you don't agree with the action I propose, propose your own. But either way, *act*. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.