From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 30 08:59:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA06869 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 08:59:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from etinc.com (et-gw.etinc.com [165.254.13.209]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA06846 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 08:58:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from ppp-082.etinc.com (ppp-082.etinc.com [204.141.95.142]) by etinc.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA14367; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 11:57:08 -0500 Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 11:57:08 -0500 Message-Id: <199601301657.LAA14367@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 2.0.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Robert Withrow From: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) Subject: RE: R. Winslow's Ignorance Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Programmer superior Robert Winslow writes..... >> > Horsehockey! I'm making money selling communication cards, the driver >> > for which I've spent many thousands of hours with no help from any of >> > you. > >I don't know what all the honk and flap is about, but anyone who >has ``spent many thousands of hours'' developing a driver for >a comm card is incompetant. Your idea of a driver and mine are clearly different. Design a board, write a comprehensive (you'll probably have to look this word up) portable driver that runs in MSDOS, 4 unixes and Windows, write frame relay, X.25 and PPP protocol engines, several manuals, and an extensive API and call me when your done. Most likely it wont work. Then when you get it so companies are willing to spend good money to run in 24 X 7 with conifidence...call me again. Idiot. Dennis ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Emerging Technologies, Inc. http://www.etinc.com Synchronous Communications Cards and Routers For Discriminating Tastes. 56k to T1 and beyond. Frame Relay, PPP, HDLC, and X.25 for BSD/OS, FreeBSD and LINUX