From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 28 17:35:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA25944 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 17:35:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA25910 Thu, 28 Mar 1996 17:34:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id MAA19252; Fri, 29 Mar 1996 12:23:24 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199603290153.MAA19252@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: BitsurfrPro on FBSD 2.1 & MLPPP broken To: dwalton@psiint.com (Dave Walton) Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 12:23:24 +1030 (CST) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, lmcsato@lmc.ericsson.se, brian@MediaCity.Com, questions@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Dave Walton" at Mar 28, 96 02:49:24 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Dave Walton stands accused of saying: > > I don't mean to be a pain here, but I really don't understand the > insistence that this is purely a hardware problem. The second half of No matter what the input, the BS shouldn't crash and reboot. Period. This is why it's a hardware problem. > his sentence above (which you didn't quote) points out that the same > hardware works correctly under Win95. I'm not suggesting that it's So the hardware works 'properly' if it works under W95? That's just the sort of pathetic mentality that makes 90% of the PC hardware on the market just so much rubbish. Does anyone smell "all the world's a Vax" here? > David Walton Unix Programmer -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[