Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 11:52:45 -0700 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: dennis@etinc.com (Dennis) Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: The view from here (was Re: ISDN Compression Load on CPU) Message-ID: <199605241852.LAA20913@Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 24 May 1996 14:06:49 EDT." <199605241806.OAA01368@etinc.com>
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>These are the words of your "leader"? > >Most of this is your own fault, for buying cheap unknown cards, >discouraging and ridiculing commercial vendors for charging for >things that are worth it and not giving away their work, and using >software thats been slapped together by someone who doesnt have >enough time to spend on it to make it really work well. Jordan's talking about other quality issues, like a poorly designed bus and rail design that allows for cards to become unseated fairly easily and the general lack of quality with 99.9% of the motherboards on the market. In this case, I'm refering to poor Q/A at the factory (bad cache ram, etc), poor BIOSes, etc. ...and then there's interoperability problems between various cards with various motherboards. This is one advantage that Sun machines have that PCs will never have - all the hardware is pretty much made by one vendor and this cuts down the interoperability/reliability problems dramatically. For those of us that come from minicomputer backgrounds (DEC PDP and VAX), it's all too obvious to us where the shortcomings are in PC hardware. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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