Matthew Jacob wrote:
> 
> The problem is that at the time this was a huge issue there were a much larger
> number of machines and pieces of h/w and radically different OS's (or flavors
> within Unix even) to support. Such a wide set of differences is not really
> there any more, hence the cost of such support (and the style in which it is
> being done) makes less sense than it used to.

I'm afraid, it is. How many versions of FreeBSD with incompatible
driver interfaces are out there ? How many versions of Linux with
the same sort of incompatibilities ?

-SB


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