From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Sep 15 20:23:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA16943 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 20:23:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obie.softweyr.ml.org ([199.104.124.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA16931 for ; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 20:23:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from wes@localhost) by obie.softweyr.ml.org (8.7.5/8.6.12) id VAA00369; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 21:25:18 -0600 (MDT) Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 21:25:18 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199709160325.VAA00369@obie.softweyr.ml.org> From: Wes Peters To: hcremean@vt.edu CC: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Testimonial In-Reply-To: <19970912010929.22227@wakky.dyn.ml.org> References: <19970906032624.26281@my.domain> <199709061315.PAA25745@rvc1.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> <19970906204232.60650@wakky.dyn.ml.org> <19970911225256.12801@my.domain> <19970912010929.22227@wakky.dyn.ml.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Lee Cremeans writes: > Bah! (What exactly is I20, anyway? I saw some talk about it on > comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc, but...) Another weird American acronym, for "Intelligent I/O." It is basically a plan for Intel to sell i960 chips to people who ordinarily aren't that stupid. The plan calls for new I/O devices to sport an i960 processor, which talks to the i960 processor on the main board, thus making all of our I/O "intelligent." It doesn't, however, say this for free: currently you have to become a member of a secret I20 brotherhood and agree not to disclose anything in order to learn enough about I20 to develop drivers. It would appear this prevents anyone from legitimately giving away I20 drivers. This is bound to change some time in the near future, as Intel has too much to lose from the negative publicity generated by all those Linuxers out there. Not to mention Ray Noorda, in the guise of Caldera, hounding them. ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com