From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jun 26 3:25:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96B1C14E8A; Sat, 26 Jun 1999 03:25:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.2) id IAA67363; Sat, 26 Jun 1999 08:28:01 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 08:28:01 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: Chuck Robey Cc: Nik Clayton , Greg Lehey , Mike Smith , Mark Newton , hm@hcs.de, nick.hibma@jrc.it, Doug Rabson , Peter Wemm , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Microsoft performance (was: All this and documentation too? (was: cvs commit: src/sys/isa sio.c)) Message-ID: <19990626082801.A67145@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> References: <19990623233357.A43818@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Chuck Robey on Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 07:20:56PM -0400 Organization: Nik at home, where there's nothing going on Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Chuck, On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 07:20:56PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: > But one thing I like is, although FreeBSD *does* try to appease user > demands, it's controlled by programmers, not users, so if something is > a technically extemely evil idea, no matter how the masses yell for it, > it will NOT happen. Programmers need documentation too. N -- [intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed, non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs the links. -- Tom Christiansen in <375143b5@cs.colorado.edu> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message