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- Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1993 15:59:34 +0200
- Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1993 07:08:08 +0200
- Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1993 15:59:34 +0200
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- I'm back -- Things look good
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- From: "Gregory O. Harp" <harp@netcom.com>
- Subject: I'm back -- Things look good
- Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1993 07:08:08 +0200
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- Well, after a long absence I have decided I have the time and interest
- to re-involve myself with the 680x0 Linux development project.
- Actually, I'm still working at the place that resulted in my leaving
- the project. I administrate more SPARC 10's, 3b2's, DG's and SCO
- boxes than you can shake a stick at. However, somehow I still feel
- like playing with Unix on my free time as well. Go figure...
-
- Out of curiosity I grabbed 0.05pl3 for a look-see. Excellent work! I
- was giggling my head off when I mounted my Amiga FFS partitions under
- it. ;)
-
- One possible problem, and it may be a known one since I've been so out
- of it: The SCSI bus scan found my Maxtor XT-8380S, which is at SCSI id
- 1, on all 8 LUNs. This drive is hanging off of my A3000 which
- currently also has the stock Quantum 105MB in it at SCSI id 6. It
- only found the Quantum on LUN 0 like it should have. I just
- re-assembled my A3000 tonight after about 6 months of inactivity, so I
- need to check it for a possible SCSI bus termination problem which,
- who knows, could have caused this. I'll update when I have a chance
- to check it out.
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- The only other thing I noticed was that the console device seems to be
- much slower than I remember it (way back when I wrote it -- but that
- one was probably scrapped since it wasn't really a suitable device).
- Also, the cursor isn't lined up exactly right, but that's a nit that
- I'm picking. The thing obviously works better than the one I wrote
- originally anyway... ;)
-
- All in all, quite an impressive job. I'm looking forward to working
- with all of you again. I'll be downloading the source and all the
- utilities (might as well re-assemble the development environment from
- scratch as well) tonight. Hamish, by the time the mailing list
- spooler sends this out you should have also received a private message
- from me.
-
- --Greg
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