Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 11:20:41 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: brianc@pobox.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IDE and ASUS P/I-P6NP5 Message-ID: <199609121820.LAA07228@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <521.842510031@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Sep 11, 96 11:33:51 pm
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> Hey, folks, I think this whole SCSI vs IDE debate sort of misses the
> fundamental point, which has nothing at all to do with "which is
> better." We're in the business of providing an operating system
> with FreeBSD, which means that the decision making process should
> always go like this:
>
> 1. Evaluate what the market is using, paying particular attention to
> what the existing and potential FreeBSD segments of it are inclined to buy.
>
> 2. Assign development priorities based on this data.
>
> 3. Identify appropriate mailing lists to whine into, the volume and
> frequency of said whining being directly proportional to the importance
> of the task.
>
> 4. Wait for resources to match themselves to projects. :-)
Clearly, no one wants to match themselves to "advanced" IDE, with the
possible exception of Soren, who is arguably insane. 8-).
People who want it should match themselves, or it won't get done, no
matter how much #3 is pounded upon ("I cut it off 3 times and it's
still too short").
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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