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Date:      Wed, 10 Jul 96 14:47:16 EDT
From:      eischen@vigrid.com (Daniel Eischen)
To:        jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Some recent changes to GENERIC
Message-ID:  <9607101847.AA10469@pcnet1.pcnet.com>

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> > I'll compromise with you - we keep ed1, which I'm going to fold over
> > since it seems so many WD/NE have a conflicting view of what a
> > "standard setting" is.  sio2/3 have already gone and I can hardly
> > accept the argument that 4 port PCs are any kind of norm.  I've seen
> > literally hundreds of different PC configurations and in all but a few
> > very rare cases, it's always the same 2 ser/1 par/1 game combo.
> 
> One mouse, one modem, ports full.
> 
> Now try to add anything.  Think of how many serial gizmo's are out there.
> Any home hacker has a mouse and modem, as an absolute freaking minimum.
> Anybody doing anything interesting has more.  Like...

I feel like I don't belong here, but...

I have to agree with Joe.  How many people have internal modems on COM3/4?
How about a PPP install for them?

Dan Eischen
eischen@pcnet.com



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