Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:56:05 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Brandon Fosdick <bfoz@glue.umd.edu> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dangerously Dedicated Message-ID: <200011192156.eAJLu5F09713@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 19 Nov 2000 14:55:55 EST." <3A18304B.689C2CFE@glue.umd.edu>
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> Using what I consider to be a artifact of another operating system on a
> machine that doesn't use that OS seems silly to me. Unless, of course,
> that artifact has some useful feature(s) or functionality. If it does, I'm
> all ears.
What "you consider" doesn't have much bearing on the situation. As for
useful functionality, this has been done to death. It should be enough
for you to accept that the platform requires it, and that a goodly slice
of platform-compliant firmware and software will fail in undesirable ways
if it's not present. All of which has been explained in excruciating
detail before.
--
... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his
rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want
to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force
people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt]
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