From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] fossil crash after installation From: Charles Forsyth Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 09:27:48 +0100 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 77dfd480-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > you must remember that dma is remarkable technology > newly devised for the PC platform, and it has been understandably > hard to get it just right. obviously i refer to the hardware interfaces. if it weren't new and difficult, IDE/ATA/SATA (... get this right yet!) drive interfaces would all be the same and all work, wouldn't they? there can't be any other possible explanation. it's not like VGA where all the interfaces are simple and the same ... just a moment ... oh, no! that's all different and differently buggy as well. i wonder how to sack an entire industry. (have you seen USB-to-Go?)