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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Date: Sunday - January 27, 2002 11:05 PM 
> Subject: UDma < Pio for byte count negotiation? 
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> I really hope PAT reads all of it.

Be aware, from this end, it seems Internet buffering is confusing our conversation.

At this end I'm seeing, for example, Pat replies to Jim with an answer for a question 
Hale asks later in different words.  This then leaves Pat unsure how to reply, hoping 
instead for Hale to volunteer to rejoin the thread where Pat & Jim left off.

Specifically I look forward to having people hear & answer two nutshells I found 
compelling:

> Subject: just use Pio
> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> Date: Saturday - January 26, 2002 9:30 AM 
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> Subject: UDma != Pio for byte count negotiation?
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Saturday - January 26, 2002 8:11 AM 

I still have hope we will jointly succeed in escaping the syndrome of "If you just say 
life shouldn't be this way, and I just say it is, and you just say it shouldn't be, 
and I just say it is, we have nothing further to say."

In the mail cited above from me I gave a couple of examples of falsifiable (i.e. 
scientific) hypotheses about how life really is.

Specifically I find the theory that the host knows in advance how many bytes will move 
which way whenever no ERR is reported to be readily falsifiable.  Sorry I was so slow 
to imagine that anyone lived in a world where that theory does hold true.  Me, I work 
mostly with commodity desktop hosts - Apple, Microsoft, Linux.

> I really hope PAT reads all of it.

Personally, I imagine I will be mostly offline for the next week or so - I'm finding 
<http://www.usenix.org/events/fast/tech.html> to be pleasantly overwhelming.  Sorry 
for the short notice.

Enjoy.    Pat LaVarre

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