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* Miles Nordin <carton@Ivy.NET> on Fri, Nov 09, 2001:

>=20
> Rather, what's needed is a framebuffer interface that can cleanly
> support hardware acceleration and ports of 3D libs to it, and more
> real-time features like fair queueing for filesystems [ :' ],
> fine-grained locking, kernel/user threads like ``Unstable Threads'', a
> fancier scheduler---that sort of thing.  I think most of this work is
> ongoing (except my ridiculous pet-fascinations like ALTQ-for-IDE and
> Masuda-Inohara threads) because everyone needs it.  Likely as not, the
> work most beneficial to port-dreamcast will be actually developed on
> other ports.
>=20
> Linux, in my not-so-humble opinion, doesn't have a prayer in the
> console arena because they want to make everything look like a PeeCee.
> Meanwhile, NetBSD progresses in exactly the opposite direction: it
> becomes increasingly un-Unixish.  This is a good thing.  This is why
> NetBSD will ultimately prevail, although maybe no one will notice.
>=20

You: a) don't sound like a games developer (not even a hobbyist one), and
b) don't sound like you write any code.  I think the third strike is pretty
obvious :P.

M. R.

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