Anders Magnusson drunkenly mumbled...
> 
> > Interesting...  Since the RL02 drives were supported on BSD 4.X and
> > earlier for as long as I can remember.  I would think that at least from a
> > historical standpoint it would be useful as I still see a lot of folks
> > with stuff on RL packs that they would like to be able to access.
> > 
> Maybe, but the device driver was tainted with AT&T code and did never
> do its way into 4.4BSD Lite anyway. That's the problem...
> *If* the driver source had been available in the 4.4 Lite sources it would
> have been trivial to make it work in NetBSD.

if he does use the "real" BSD sources, he should be careful to extract all AT&T
code so that it can be grafted into the source tree.

> Depends what you compare with. If you play with RP06 disks then RL02
> is a small and easy disk sybsystem :-)

i see a major thread out of this. :)

-brian

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