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Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 05:42:20 -0400
From: Michael Meissner <meissner@spectacle-pond.org>
To: Willem Konynenberg <wfk@xos.nl>
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Subject: Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants
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On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 04:46:33AM +0200, Willem Konynenberg wrote:
> I think here we might learn from the comments that people made
> about how AIX and OSF/1/Tru64 have been doing this.

However, I suspect that generally AIX and OSF/1 Tru64 systems come with system
managers.  Many Linux system do not (well presumably anybody who reads this
mailing list has enough of a clue....).  Also, I bet the number of USB and
Firewire devices used on the above two systems is probably vanishingly small.

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