[rescue] Dec PWS 500a

[Paul Sladen]

On Sat, 25 Aug 2001, joshua d boyd wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 01:42:09AM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:
> > Sole problem is/was lack of documentation.
> 
> Not quite.  While that is most of the problem, it also could have been
> solved by someone with quite a lot of time on their hands and a
> disassembler.  Err, they also shouldn't be US citizens in this day and
> age.  I believe that is how some hardware support in linux has been
> gained.

The NetBSD guys are on the whole even more into tune with hardware.  For
instance, take the mac ports in linux; a decided portion was based on what
the BSD guys had done, and my guess this probably applies to the other archs
aswell, although I've not read the source for a while.

Somehow they seem to attract people too;  for instance core Alpha guys.

....Now if *BSD folks would put their work down; and put their time and
energies into Linux instead.... B->