On Wed, 14 May 1997, Robert Black wrote:

> In the interests of making RiscBSD as cool as possible we (the RiscBSD team,
> not Causality limited) would like to know where to concentrate our efforts.
> Please could you take a few minutes to answer these questions and return the
> response to me (yes I know what this is going to do to my mailbox - for this
> reason please try to keep the words 'RiscBSD Survey' somewhere in the subject
> line so I can filter them)
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Rob
> 
> 
> 1) What hardware do you run RiscBSD on?
> 
> a) RiscPC (how many?)
1 700+FPA
> b) A7000 (how many?)
> c) RC7500 (how many?)
> d) Other (list)
> 
> 2) Do you use RiscBSD
> 
> a) At home (y/n)
y
> b) At work (y/n)
y
> c) Other (specify)
> 
> 3) What processor(s) do you have?
> 
> a) ARM610 (y/n)
y
> b) ARM700 (y/n)
y
> c) ARM710 (y/n)
> d) ARM7500 (y/n)
> e) Standard Acorn release SA110 (y/n)
> f) Other SA110 (please specify chip revision number)
> g) Other (describe)
> 
> h) Do you have floating point hardware? (y/n)
y
> 
> 4) What storage do you have?
wd0 at wdc0 drive 0: 3067MB, 6232 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sec <QUANTUM FIREBALL_TM3200A>
sd0 at scsibus0 targ 5 lun 0: <SyQuest, SQ3270S, 1_27> SCSI2 0/direct removable
i also have a 4x4 ATAPI CDROM  (but no drivers!!!)
> 
> a) How much RAM do you have (excluding VRAM)?
32+8 == 40Mb
> b) How much VRAM do you have?
2Mb
> c) How much IDE disk space do you have total?
3.2 Gb
> d) How much of it is allocated to RiscBSD?
2.7 Gb
> e) How much SCSI disk space do you have?
lots of 270Mb syquests
> f) How much of it is allocated to RiscBSD?
depends if i'm in the mood to back things up;-)
> g) If you use Acorn RiscOS what version do you use?
3.5
> h) Do you have a CDROM drive? If so what type? (SLCD/ATAPI/SCSI)
ATAPI 4x4
> 
> 5) Console
> 
> a) Do you use the text console much? (y/n)
y
> b) Do you use X much? (y/n)
y
> c) What monitor type do you have?
a Sun GDM 20D-10 (i.e. wierd)
> d) What text console mode(s) would you like to use? (please give x and y
> resolution, number of bits per pixel and frequency)
1024x768 C256
> e) What X mode(s) would you like to use?
1280x1024 C256 or/and 800x600 C32K
> f) On a scale of 1 to 10 how would you rate the importance mouse cut and paste
> on the text console (10 is highest priority)?
5
> g) On a scale of 1 to 10 how would you rate the importance of being able to
> switch between multiple virtual terminals?
7
> h) On a scale of 1 to 10 how would you rate the importance of text console
> scrollback?
9
> i) On a scale of 1 to 10 how would you rate the importance of programmable
> keyboard maps?
3
> j) On a scale of 1 to 10 how would you rate the importance of programmable
> fonts?
1 - it would be pretty but not wonderfully usefull
> k) On a scale of 1 to 10 how would you rate the importance of non-dumb-console
> support?
8
> l) On a scale of 1 to 10 how would you rate the importance of anti-aliasing?
3
> m) On a scale of 1 to 10 how would you rate the importance of multi-byte
> characters?
6 - important for java???
> 
> 5) Drivers
> 
> a) Of the existing drivers which ones do you think require work the most
> urgently (rate them on a scale of 1 to 10)?

i'm not up to date on the current status of the drivers - which will change
after/during wakefield i beleive
 
> b) What additional hardware would you like to see supported? (again rate it on
> a scale of 1 to 10)

multiport serial cards, shrug - whatever makes people happy

> 6) Other comments
> 
> If you have any additional comments you would like to make please do so.

atapi support would be nice...

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