Perry E. Metzger said:
> 
> "John S. Dyson" writes:
> > Perry E. Metzger said:
> > > 
> > > "John S. Dyson" writes:
> > > > Our goals for portability are limited due to quality reasons.  I
> > > > really don't care if an OS runs on a VAX, if I have an Alpha and
> > > > X86.
> > > 
> > > I don't care much about the VAX. What I care about is next year's
> > > system that requires flexibility in ways that having the VAX work
> > > taught us to accomodate. As it stands, we work on virtually everything 
> > > that can be thrown about us -- and these days, building a new port is
> > > becoming a cookie cutter operation, with massive code sharing.
> > > 
> > > In my opinion, that's real quality.
> > > 
> > I think that is a great attribute, but when the user deals with
> > problems and issues that they shouldn't because of a very narrow
> > focused belief about "quality", then that doesn't show quality,
> > in my opinion.
> 
> Which problems would these be? Not innuendo -- specifics.
> 
Performance, internal kernel API that doesn't work well.  You are
welcome to consider better quality control, it really isn't my
job.

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John                  | Never try to teach a pig to sing,
dyson@freebsd.org     | it just makes you look stupid,
jdyson@nc.com         | and it irritates the pig.