Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 23:00:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: tony@dell.com (Tony Overfield) Cc: Shimon@i-Connect.Net, tlambert@primenet.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: INB question Message-ID: <199709292300.QAA18099@usr09.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.2.32.19970929030500.006ff1c0@bugs.us.dell.com> from "Tony Overfield" at Sep 29, 97 03:05:00 am
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> This was first hooked up this way back in 1981 when the first IBM PC > came out. This has been working the same way for over 15 years. > They had no way to know that it would suddenly become a problem for > Terry in late 1997. Or anyone else programming an MCA DMA register. > They probably didn't even realize that the circuit > lacked "vision," since they had no idea they were laying the > foundations of such a colossal legacy. Heh. Because they lacked "vision"... 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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