Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 02:34:18 +0400 (MSD) From: "."@babolo.ru To: Toerless Eckert <eckert@i4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot2 broken ? (booting from pst fails) Message-ID: <1050359658.658599.4201.nullmailer@cicuta.babolo.ru> In-Reply-To: <200304142009.WAA26011@faui40p.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
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> But here's the point: people buy PC hardware because it's cheap. Guess why Some people buy PC hardware because of freedom in select of it. Compare to Mac. > it's cheap. If i had the money to buy a sun with a comparable system with > raid, do you think i'd hang around with a PC ? Or for that matter with Hm... Your freedom with Sun is more more restricted. > a clone of forth in loader if i can have real open boot prom where i can > read and change the forth initialization routines of add-on cards instead > of having to hope that the binary BIOS oroutines f some PC cards is compatible > with the motherboard BIOS ? Heck, i had to return two motherboards because > they couldn't initialize raid, scsi and firewire being in the system at > the same time. > > In a cheesy hardware environment like PC the right thing to do is to > minimize the expectations on what that stuff can do, especially the BIOS. The world is as bad as you allow it to be... > You don't have to be better on this than the competition (linux, *bsd, windows), > but you shouldn't be much more expectant. *BSDs strong point has always been > to be architecturally and implementation wise more advanced than Linux. Raising > the bar for hardware is NOT compliant with that goal if you ask me. .. Sorry my English is bad.
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