Subject: Re: README: changes to config, to support dump device configuration
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Rob Healey <rob-healey@norstar.com>
List: current-users
Date: 06/15/1997 11:32:38
> >> No, and no. That would require a number of changes... and, what if you
> >> lost inside NFS? Eek!
> >
> > Huh? "What if you lost inside NFS?"
>
> Indeed. (Surprising reply from Jason, must be weary from all the copyright
> battles that I keep having to delete unread *hint hint*)
>
Oh wait, you mean current-users really isn't meant for
current-copyright-whining?... I know I appreciate all the excess
noise that gets downloaded to my mailbox because of it... NOT!
> "What if you lost inside NFS" didn't seem to prevent Sun from supporting
> "diskless workstations" for eons ...
>
> (Heck, they could even swap over the net before NFS. Any old farts like me
> still remember "ND"? (-: )
>
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek! Actually, most of my headaches came more from
the man/flesh eating Multibus/VME horrid hardware designs in the
Sun2's and Sun3's than the headaches of ND care and feeding! And
NFS seemed such a radical change back then, who'd uh thunk the world
would have changed so much in only a decade or so. Nostolgia violins
play in the background... B^).
-Rob