From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 29 06:33:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA14936 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 06:33:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from terra.Sarnoff.COM (terra.sarnoff.com [130.33.11.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id GAA14923 for ; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 06:33:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rminnich@Sarnoff.COM) Received: (from rminnich@localhost) by terra.Sarnoff.COM (8.6.12/8.6.12) id JAA07423; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 09:32:47 -0400 Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 09:32:46 -0400 (EDT) From: "Ron G. Minnich" X-Sender: rminnich@terra To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: I2O Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG at usenix last week the question of I2O came up. Don't worry about I2O. Look around: how many I2O motherboards do you see, as compared to non-I2O motherboards? Look at it this way: you think microsoft is that interested in requiring a second operating system (vxworks) to make NT go? I2O will be a footnote in a year or so. After that, it will be forgotten and in 10 years someone else will reinvent the idea and learn the hard way why it is a bad one (as I2O is itself a reinvention of old, bad ideas). ron Ron Minnich |Java: an operating-system-independent, rminnich@sarnoff.com |architecture-independent programming language (609)-734-3120 |for Windows/95 and Windows/NT on the Pentium ftp://ftp.sarnoff.com/pub/mnfs/www/docs/cluster.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message