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- From: arumble@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Anthony Rumble)
- Subject: Re: SB Pro Card for Unix
- Message-ID: <arumble.713708182@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU>
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- Organization: Sydney University Computing Service, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- References: <1992Jul29.143327.27537@comp.lancs.ac.uk> <#51mjs+.thinman@netcom.com> <1992Aug12.040516.18473@digibd.com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 12:16:22 GMT
- Lines: 32
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- rick@digibd.com (Rick Richardson) writes:
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- >thinman@netcom.com (Technically Sweet) writes:
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- >>daves@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Dave Stow) writes:
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- >>>I have a SB Pro card inside a Compaq 386, and I want to write/get hold
- >>>of a device driver for it so I can control it from SVR4.
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- >>I maintain a Unix driver/app suite for the old, moldy SB
- >>that runs under Unix V.3 & V.4. steveh@ucsd.edu wrote an
- >>maintains a separate suite for the SB Pro that runs under
- >>the BSD-flavored Unixes. Mine will work, but you may want
- >>to hack in features from Steve's as you want them. His
- >>stuff includes more cleanly designed ioctl()'s and some
- >>X windows control software.
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- >For a time I used Lance's stuff under SVR4. Its pretty simple
- >to get working there. But I've dumped my home computer for
- >the time being, so I'm not active in that area anymore.
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- >Steve's driver has more features than Lance's, and it would be
- >super excellent to merge the code. I believe that with careful
- >coding, one could make the two drivers essentially compatible.
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- A Linux version wouldn't go astray either!!
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- --
- Anthony Rumble
- aka SmilieZ
- "Anything is possible.. If there is enuf money in it"
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