Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!husc6!rice!sun-spots-request
From: attcan!utzoo!henry@uunet.uu.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: changes to SCSI drivers from 3.4 to 4.0
Keywords: Miscellaneous
Message-ID: <8904010423.AA04707@uunet.UU.NET>
Date: 24 Apr 89 02:23:56 GMT
Sender: usenet@rice.edu
Organization: Sun-Spots
Lines: 17
Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu
Original-Date: Fri, 31 Mar 89 23:23:44 -0500
X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 241, message 11 of 15

>Messing with the SCSI stuff has always been difficult, because Sun's "open
>systems" policy apparently doesn't extend to the addition of new SCSI
>devices -- there's no documentation I can find about the structure of how
>SCSI devices work...

The fact is, Sun's "open systems" policy is a sham, a scam, and a swindle.
When you compare Sun to Mips -- which doesn't make 1/10th as much fuss
about "open systems" and is one hell of a lot more open about things like
the kernel and the hardware -- you quickly realize this.

I'm indebted to my frequent partner in crime and fellow Sun victim, Geoff
Collyer, for summing it up nicely:

	"`Open systems' means they want your wallet to open."

	Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
	uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu