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Subject: Re: QIC ft0 driver support in 4.0-CURRENT gone? 
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<<On Fri, 15 Oct 1999 10:20:54 -0700 (PDT), Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> said:

> the driver could come back if someone who HAD such a device were to adopt
> it..

Probably not.  The hardware is just so transcendently evil that it's
unlikely it could be made to work reliably for more than one or two
people at a time.

At some point we need to stop supporting antique hardware since it
places a significant burden on the advancement of the rest of the
system.

-GAWollman



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