From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 24 21:19:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA22264 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 24 Apr 1997 21:19:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from argus (pm3-p11.tfs.net [206.154.183.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA22253 for ; Thu, 24 Apr 1997 21:19:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jbryant@localhost) by argus (8.6.12/8.6.12) id XAA08144; Thu, 24 Apr 1997 23:17:44 -0500 From: Jim Bryant Message-Id: <199704250417.XAA08144@argus> Subject: Re: Maintainer of ft/lft To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 23:17:43 -0500 (CDT) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Reply-To: jbryant@tfs.net In-Reply-To: <199704250044.RAA02316@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Apr 24, 97 05:44:52 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply: > > HOW CAN YOU BE SO F***ING IGNORANT??? > > > > As one in QIC observer status [check the QIC mailing list], I can > > assure you that by sheer numbers alone, the vast majority of tape > > drives in existance are QIC-117 compatable... > > > > need i say anything else??? > > Yeah. Explain why PIO to a chip without a FIFO to a drive where > the manufacturers try to "unique feature" each other to death (thereby > causing driver level incompatability) is a good thing? > > Do I need to go into the whole "VHS sucks, but it still won over Beta" > discussion again? QIC is QIC... interchangable... interoperable... do you have the standards documents? i do... yes, it's inefficient, yes, it sucks... but should i reiterate? isa sucks... no free irqs really sucks... win blows.. IT'S THE STANDARD... LIVE WITH IT... attitudes like you are showing are some of the reasons people use linux, because linux is trying to support "standard" equipment... terry, not everyone is as fortunate as you to own a storagetek or cybernetics terabyte tape robot... most people have QIC tape drives using a QIC-117 interface... [flame mode off] jim -- All opinions expressed are mine, if you | "I will not be pushed, stamped, think otherwise, then go jump into turbid | briefed, debriefed, indexed, or radioactive waters and yell WAHOO !!! | numbered!" - #1, "The Prisoner" jbryant@tfs.net - KC5VDJ 2M, 70cm, KPC-3+ - kc5vdj@wv0t.#neks.ks.usa.noam