On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Sergey Babkin wrote:
> 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 ?
Not too many. Major release rules have been adhered somewhat.
> How many versions of Linux with
> the same sort of incompatibilities ?
Linux is far worse - the release of the moment....
But the primary motivation for a UDI like i/f (which, btw, has a lot *not*
going for it) in terms of multiplatform support is not the issue it once was.
-matt
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