Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 23:09:52 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> Cc: se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE (Stefan Esser), michaelv@HeadCandy.com, jas@flyingfox.com, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI again: Asus SC200 vs. Adaptec 2940 Message-ID: <1050.840661792@critter.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 21 Aug 1996 13:07:51 PDT." <199608212007.NAA10653@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>
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>>Stefan: >> This makes me wonder (again), whether I really should spend $1000 >> on the necessary hardware, and time worth some $10000 or more (if I >> spent it on paid work) just to allow other people to use the latest >> 53c8xx variants (Ultra-WIDE), who then complain about a NCR driver >> bug, whenever some VM system tuning introduces temporal instability :) > >Rod: >Don't make me laugh... I've probably invested well into the 6 digits >of time and money into FreeBSD in one way or another. I am sure David, >John, Jordan, Poul, Julian, and a fist full of others are in the same >situation. I'd like to jump in here. I know Rod and I know Stefan too. You guys are like made to misunderstand each other! We all know that the relationship between the resources a person can muster for FreeBSD in terms of HW and $$$ has nothing to do with the value of that contributor to the project. Several people have proved that point many times over, Stefan is one of them. $1000 may not sound like much to Rod, but to a lot of people that would be all of one years budget for computer-hw, in many cases probably even more than that. I really wish we could get some people to donate money, so that we could help productive but HW-challenged people like Stefan. The confusing thing here is the smiley after Stefans complaint. If I read it right, its that feeling of "the world is an unjust place, but heck, it's still better than the alternative". -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.
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