Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 15:09:08 -0800 (PST) From: Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3/3 SNAP needs bounce buffers? Message-ID: <Pine.AUX.3.91.960308150117.19236A-100000@covina.lightside.com> In-Reply-To: <20288.826325926@time.cdrom.com>
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On Fri, 8 Mar 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > Weird! I unfortunately don't have a 2842 to test with, so this is > kinda hard. I'm leaving for the post office right now with your > Bt445C - I guess it's time I got off my butt and sent it, huh? :-) > > Jordan It could be just a weird VM problem, I dunno.. At any rate, thanks for sending the Bt445C, I can sure use it for the "Frankenstein" 486 we've got set up as a FreeBSD box right now at my university. Right now it has three IDE hard drives and a Mitsumi 2X CD-ROM, of all things, and a friend wanted to throw in an 8-bit (!) ISA Future Domain SCSI controller so he could plug in his SCSI Zip drive. I'll use your Buslogic instead, and then we'll have a decent SCSI controller and therefore the opportunity to plug in SCSI devices as we find (beg, borrow, or steal) them. :-) Belated thanks for your belated gift, I guess it's enough of a bribe for me to design those FreeBSD advertisement pages I've offered to do. :-) Also, in the propoganda area, I send some mail to Nicholas Petreley, who writes a weekly column in InfoWorld. He said that their Test Center, among other things, will: "try to find you the best Web server solution, regardless of the platform or combination of products we must use ... But we also consider it our charter to evaluate one or more of the low mind- and market-share platforms that may be cost-effective and competitive product combinations, such as the Macintosh OS or Linux." I told him that FreeBSD is exactly the kind of product they ought to look into (and/or its cousins NetBSD and BSDI). I pointed him to ftp.cdrom.com as a FreeBSD success story, the benchmarks at plastique.stanford.edu, and the FreeBSD Web page. I told him that once I finished the FreeBSD comparison Web page, I'd mail him the URL. I'll let you know what he replies. (crossing my fingers..) ---Jake
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