Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 21:35:59 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>, J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Demand loading (Re: FreeBSD, Zappa & PCI) Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960103213250.12408D-100000@mocha.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <5130.820701739@time.cdrom.com>
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On Wed, 3 Jan 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > I don't have any personal antipathy against ELF (I must have missed > Joerg's original post - I've only seen references in follow-ups) I > just have an antipathy against: > > 1. Adopting new technologies for the apparent sake of it, and > especially when they're going to be *really painful* in the > transition. > > 2. Adopting new technologies before they're ready. Would anyone > mind just a little if we waited for Linux to go to their second > tools rev in their position as ELF-leader? :-) > Jordan, I can understand your first argument, but since SVR4 has been running ELF for quite some time now, well, the second argument is a little harder to see, for me. Does ELF really still qualify as new technology? > Jordan > ============================================================================ Chuck Robey chuckr@eng.umd.edu -- I run FreeBSD on n3lxx and Journey2 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Dilbert Zone is Dilbert's new WWW home! The area features never-before-seen original sketches of Dilbert, a photo tour of Scott Adams' studio, Dilbert Trivia and memorabilia, high school photos and much more!: <URL:http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert/>;
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