27 Feb
2002
27 Feb
'02
1:37 a.m.
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 09:38:25AM -0500, Gunther Schadow wrote:
[PDP 11/70]
Johnny, were you suggesting you have a *spare* one
among them?
I am afraid he has. They have plenties of big, old DEC iron up there
Sweden... Sometimes I think about rentig a _BIG_ truck and driving
up to the polar circle and "clean-up" the "computer junk" that they
have
in their basements... ;-)
If I'm not mistaken the whole idea stems from BSD
anyway (just as
the whole Ultrix does.) In 386/BSD and early FreeBSD the config(8)
syntax distinguished controller from device. Here this is from
GENERIC.allvax of 4.3 BSD:
The whole autoconfig(9) stuff changed on the way from
4.3BSD to
4.4BSD (AFAIK) and again from 4.4BSD to todays NetBSD. So this
4.3BSD stuff is mostly obsolete. If you are interrested in the
NetBSD autoconfig(9) system wait for a week or two and you can
review my NetBSD device driver writing HOWTO. Perhaps you are
willing to to the German => English translation?
--
tsch??,
Jochen
Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/