Date: Sun, 27 Jul 1997 12:55:29 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: ache@nagual.pp.ru (=?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?=) Cc: louie@TransSys.COM, gibbs@plutotech.com, laskavy@cs.msu.su, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /bin/chio: why in /bin ? Message-ID: <199707271955.MAA01210@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970727002703.1364C-100000@lsd.relcom.eu.net> from "=?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?=" at Jul 27, 97 00:29:58 am
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> > chio is not clearly machine dependent. It talks to any SCSI media > > changer device, just like mt works with any SCSI tape device. > > Your words are in conflict: you talk about "not machine dependent" > and "SCSI device". Any phisical device which not exist for all machines > (like memory f.e.) IS machine dependance. SCSI not exist for all machines. Kind of a pyrric victory, there... the damn thing is an x86 binary any way you look at it. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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