On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Colin Wood wrote:

> Paul Goyette wrote:
> > The early code had a timing bug with (IIRC) the IIsi's adb.  To make it
> > work, someone stuck in code to echo a couple of backspaces.  This has
> > been there _forever_.
> 
> yep.

Indeed. I got involved in NetBSD/mac68k when this was being figured out.
There's one certain place where you have to have a delay (such as one
provided by a printf) for things to work. It was REALLY screwwy when the
adb started working with debugging printf's and wouldn't w/o them. :-)

Take care,

Bill