On Nov 13, 7:33am, Jason Thorpe wrote:
} > On Nov 13, 2018, at 7:15 AM, John Nemeth <jnem...@cue.bc.ca> wrote:
} >
} > That's a different kind of unusable. :-) That puts it in
} > the same camp as strip, where there may be functioning hardware,
} > but you can't do anything with the hardware.
}
} ...and when you can't do anything with the hardware, people don't use
} (i.e. "test by dogfooding") the drivers, which leads to bit rot and
} maintenance headaches.
As I noted, it's not quite the same. Assuming that our ISDN
stack was capable of acting as "network" side, you could have used
it in a back-to-back configuration. Granted, that's probably not
very interesting except for special circumstances. It's my
understanding, which may be incorrect, that strip required a central
node, and without that you couldn't do anything.
}-- End of excerpt from Jason Thorpe
