Subject: Re: Floppy Support for NetBSD
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
From: Ken Nakata <kenn@eden.rutgers.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 04/24/1996 21:05:58
> Also, all of the floppy calls are synchronous (if we don't
> have DMA on the computer). Thank the Woz & Steve Jobs for that
> briliance! Even A/UX froze the computer whenever you inserted
> a floppy (or worse yet, formatted one).
Ack! That's sickening...
> Though not having floppy support sounds brain-dead, I think we need
> other things first, like SCSI on all machines, broad-based
> Ethernet, etc.
Fully agreed, though I don't want to discourage anyone who wants to
give it a shot.
ken