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Date:      Sun, 27 Sep 1998 07:56:53 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        David Holland <dholland@cs.toronto.edu>
Cc:        gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Current is Really Broken(tm) 
Message-ID:  <10170.906875813@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 26 Sep 1998 23:03:49 EDT." <98Sep26.230357edt.37768-5346@qew.cs.toronto.edu> 

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In message <98Sep26.230357edt.37768-5346@qew.cs.toronto.edu>, David Holland writes:
> > <ARCHITECTURE>
> > 
> > For any SLICE/GEOMETRY implementation, the discovery and instantiation
> > of the network of handlers and devices is the most tricky part,
> > no doubt about that.
> > 
> > There are two basic ways to skin that cat:
>
>I think this is a false dichotomy; the way I'd probably implement it
>if I set out on such a project is neither of these, but a mixture, as
>follows:

I pretty much thought so a couple of years ago as well.

Then I tried to implement it.

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
"ttyv0" -- What UNIX calls a $20K state-of-the-art, 3D, hi-res color terminal

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