Stefan Grefen wrote:
> In message <199810271146.LAA09488@etinc.com>  Dennis wrote:
> > At 08:13 PM 10/26/98 -0500, you wrote:
> > 
> > No, but you are demonstrating your lack of understanding, as are most
> > of the other people in this camp. Any company that tries to make every sale
> > to every potential customer regardless of their requirements doesnt have
> > a marketing plan worth implementing. If you can do without frame relay, 
> > bandwidth management, dont need higher density or load balancing or
> > a more powerful user interface, then you aren't a candidate to use our
> > product. We move on to the next customer. 
> 
> Oouch, as we don't sell NetBSD and as a group don't buy a thing this
> threat is hollow ...
> On the other hand, try running FreeBSD on an Alpha ...

Yes, try that. There's a daily snapshot available from:

ftp://mirrors.rcn.com/pub/FreeBSD/alpha

And with the change from lkm to kld in FreeBSD, Dennis will be able to ship
a binary driver which can be loaded at boot time without GNU tools.

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