Re: Removing ARCNET stuffs

2015-05-29 Thread J. Lewis Muir
On 5/29/15 5:22 AM, David Holland wrote: > Because of these trends, I've been thinking for a while now that maybe > it's getting to be time to fork. Hello, David! I started using NetBSD because of its small base system disk and memory footprint, focus on security, support for many machine archite

Re: Removing ARCNET stuffs

2015-05-29 Thread Dennis Ferguson
On 28 May, 2015, at 17:57 , Tyler Retzlaff wrote: > On 5/28/2015 12:39 PM, Robert Swindells wrote: >> Radoslaw Kujawa wrote: >> >> The same arguments might be made against the plan to remove ATM >> support. > > I've got no problem with keeping it, removing it isn't really intellectually > rew

Re: Removing ARCNET stuffs

2015-05-29 Thread Taylor R Campbell
Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 10:22:35 + From: David Holland Because of these trends, I've been thinking for a while now that maybe it's getting to be time to fork. That would allow having one project that intends to stay current, with all the attendant requirements, which probably

Re: Removing ARCNET stuffs

2015-05-29 Thread Robert Swindells
David Holland wrote: >On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 08:06:56PM +0200, Tom Ivar Helbekkmo wrote: > > Me, too. What NetBSD offers, that no other O/S offers, is the support > > for platforms that are no longer mainstream. I've run it on Sparc and > > VAX processors for years, and hope to continue playin

Re: Removing ARCNET stuffs

2015-05-29 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 10:22:35AM +, David Holland wrote: > Because of these trends, I've been thinking for a while now that maybe > it's getting to be time to fork. That would allow having one project > that intends to stay current, with all the attendant requirements, > which probably m

Re: Removing ARCNET stuffs

2015-05-29 Thread David Holland
On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 05:01:02PM +, paul_kon...@dell.com wrote: > > But I too find it regrettable and possibly dangerous. One of my > > copious-spare-time projects is to dig up enough specs to add a DECnet > > stack to my systems; > > DECnet phase IV specs are readily available and goo

Re: Removing ARCNET stuffs

2015-05-29 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-05-29 08:18, Matt Thomas wrote: On May 28, 2015, at 4:15 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote: On 2015-05-28 21:19, Tom Ivar Helbekkmo wrote: paul_kon...@dell.com writes: And DECnet nodes exist around the Internet; the “Hobbyist DECnet” group (“hecnet”) is the main focus of that activity as

Re: Removing ARCNET stuffs

2015-05-29 Thread David Holland
On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 08:06:56PM +0200, Tom Ivar Helbekkmo wrote: > Me, too. What NetBSD offers, that no other O/S offers, is the support > for platforms that are no longer mainstream. I've run it on Sparc and > VAX processors for years, and hope to continue playing with these old > machine