Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 17:53:28 -0500 (EST)
From: Paul W Brannan <brannanp AT musc DOT edu>
To: Orlando Andico <orly AT gibson DOT eee DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph>
cc: mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: this is way off-topic!
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> the problem with that is that most people don't have much idea what their
> soundcard's IRQ, DMA, etc is. and, even though you can compile soundcard
> as a loadable module, the module sits at a particular IRQ/DMA/port
> configuration, and you can't have a module for every combination..

Exactly.

> there IS an automount feature for removable media (i.e. zip drives,
> cdrom's, floppies) this works nicely except for floppies, because the
> mount daemon (similar to vold on Solaris) polls the drive, thus wearing it
> out faster. the Solaris 2.x vold man page tells a lot about this kind of
> wear-out-the-drive behavior. 

How about checking to see if the medaia has been changed every time the
drive is accessed?

> Everyone should try out XForms, it uses only Xlib, it's pretty cute, and
> it even comes with an interface designer that spits out code wrappers for
> you. Who knows, it might not be too tough to port to DJGPP/Xlibemu. There
> is already an OS/2 XFree86 port. 

Hey, if we could port XFree86 to OpenDOS, we could have a user-friendly OS
that runs Linux programs.  That would be cool.

Just some more brainstorming...

Paul Brannan
brannanp AT musc DOT edu