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Received: from sloth.swcp.com (sloth.swcp.com [198.59.115.25]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id KAA15828 for <executor@nacm.com>; Fri, 25 Aug 1995 10:27:35 -0700 Received: from iclone.UUCP (uucp@localhost) by sloth.swcp.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with UUCP id LAA09181; Fri, 25 Aug 1995 11:27:33 -0600 Received: from beaut.ardi.com by mailhost with smtp (nextstep Smail3.1.29.0 #11) id m0sm2TX-000YbnC; Fri, 25 Aug 95 11:23 MDT Received: by beaut.ardi.com (linux Smail3.1.28.1 #5) id m0sm2TX-00005nC; Fri, 25 Aug 95 11:23 MDT Message-Id: <m0sm2TX-00005nC@beaut.ardi.com> Date: Fri, 25 Aug 95 11:23 MDT From: ctm@ardi.com (Clifford Thomas Matthews) To: Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com> Cc: executor@nacm.com Subject: Re: E/D and Iomega Zip drive In-Reply-To: <m0sm1QI-0009XZC@covina.lightside.com> References: <m0sm1QI-0009XZC@covina.lightside.com> Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Jake" == Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com> writes: [excellent description of Zip drives deleted] ... Jake> Yesterday I installed a regular 230MB Bernoulli drive (SCSI) Jake> at work on our 100MHz Pentium, and although it works fine Jake> with Windows NT and DOS, it does NOT work with Linux. :-( Sorry to hear that. I had hoped the days of SCSI incompatibility were behind us (everyone in the computer industry), at least for disk drives. Jake> One other thing (sorry to be so off-topic): Has anyone else Jake> been having problems with the ELF version of Linux? ... Jake> I'll have to recopy those libraries from a boot floppy or I Jake> can't even boot :-( In the meantime I'm very disenchanted Jake> with Linux, and I've decided to make the jump to FreeBSD Jake> when the next version is released in September. There is a Jake> Linux emulation library for FreeBSD which lets you play Jake> Linux DOOM, perhaps with sufficient work one could use Jake> Executor on it. I'll update this list as I find out more... People who want to discuss the merits of Linux vs. FreeBSD are welcome to contact Jake directly, but are encouraged to avoid starting a discussion on this list. Remember, we have many NEXTSTEP and DOS/Windows users who wouldn't be particularly interested in the discussion. I don't mind people piggybacking questions to the Executor community (within reason: no "do you need a green card?" type questions) on top of useful letters as long as the resulting discussion doesn't occur on the list. That being said, it is worth pointing out that Steven Wallace has already made enough modifications to the Linux emulation library that FreeBSD will soon be able to run Executor/Linux with no known FreeBSD specific incompatibilities. I don't know whether that will still be the case when we get an SVGAlib version out for Linux, though. --Cliff ctm@ardi.com