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Date: Fri, 09 Jan 1998 23:10:35 -0700
From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@plutotech.com>
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>   Does this make my position any more clear? It really comes down to 
>priorities, and until Justin needed it for easier NetBSD support, it was
>not a priority of anyone working on FreeBSD.

Well I really added it for cleaner bounce buffer support, but it helps
out NetBSD porting efforts too.

>-DG
>
>David Greenman
>Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project

--
Justin