From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jul 21 07:37:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA15994 for current-outgoing; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 07:37:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from plaut.de (ns.plaut.de [194.39.177.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id HAA15989; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 07:37:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from totum.plaut.de (totum.plaut.de [194.39.177.9]) by plaut.de (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id QAA26733; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 16:37:15 +0200 Received: from localhost (afuchs@localhost) by totum.plaut.de (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA16034; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 16:37:16 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 16:37:16 +0200 (MET DST) From: alex fuchsstadt Reply-To: alex fuchsstadt To: Dermot McNally cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , current@FreeBSD.ORG, "Jordan K. Hubbard" , dg@root.com Subject: Re: I am contemplating the following change... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, Dermot McNally wrote: > > On 19-Jul-97 Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > >It's far more common in the 8 bit cards, yes. I would, however, > >hypothesize that the 16 bit cards have now (or will very shortly) > >outnumber the legacy equipment. I do know that I've certainly > >received a considerable amount of negative feedback over the choice of > >5 ("5?! Who uses that anymore? 10! The default value should be > >10! What are you guys thinking?!") :-) > > > >How does the "user base" feel about this? > > 10, every time. Or 11 if you really want to, but not 5 and > certainly not 3, for the very good reasons already pointed out. I > would guess that anyone who still uses an 8-bit network card has been > long enough at this game to know how to tweak the default value. Exactly! The discussion about this theme becomes weird! Every network-if you can buy now, especially the cheap NE2000 compatible ones, are shiped with a soft config utility (DOS). Use interupts > 7! I think the mass of PC harware users have a sound-if built-in or an additional if-card for COM or LPT, so I have: COM1:IRQ4 (MOUSE) COM2:IRQ3 COM3:IRQ15 COM4:IRQ10 LPT1:IRQ7 LPT2:IRQ5 SND:IRQ9 ED0:IRQ11 NCR:IRQ12 Some folks will mention to use IRQ12 for SCSI is weird, cause ps/2-mouse port uses this IRQ - by the use of four serial ports, I can loose one for a mouse. > > Dermot > > ---------------------------------- > Dermot McNally, Motorola EMEA CCS, Muenchen > dermot@sissdev.sps.mot.com, phone +49-89-92103 648 > ---------------------------------- > This is how the "user base" feels about it! Alexander Fuchsstadt -------------------- R/3-Basis Plaut Software GmbH