Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 19:08:17 +0200 (MET DST) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG (Gary Palmer) Cc: se@zpr.uni-koeln.de, conta@alpo.casc.com, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940 PCI-SCSI on Compaq ProLinea 5100 Message-ID: <199607171708.TAA00615@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <3481.837555465@orion.webspan.net> from "Gary Palmer" at Jul 16, 96 06:17:45 pm
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As Gary Palmer wrote... > > But what they didn't care about was, that > > the required workaround might break support > > for other systems. They don't bother, since > > they know their drivers are only used with > > their machines. But we hardly want to have > > a special FreeBSD version just for Compaq > > machines ... :) > > Which is (IMNSHO) is *EXTREMELY* shortshighted of ANY company ... how > many ``high end'' OS's rely on the crappy PC bios for I/O? I'm not > meaning the M$ stuff, I'm meaning the true UN*X stuff (e.g. Solaris, People get filty rich by just doing mainstream (read: M$ stuff). Why bother with niche markets? It's sad, true... > SCO, FreeBSD. Sorry, maybe I shouldn't have said UN*X :-) ). It > basically means that Compaq hardware is limited to running M$ stuff, > which is cutting out other people from the game ... has Compaq been > bought out by M$, perhaps? :) > > Gary Wilko 'The Devils Attorney' _ ____________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Wilko Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem - The Netherlands --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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