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From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: WFJ's talk last night...
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Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1993 21:27:17 GMT
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In article <1993Feb22.071916.14364@netcom.com> alm@netcom.com (Andrew Moore) writes:
> In article <C2tFIH.498@sugar.neosoft.com> peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
> >I worried that 386BSD 0.2 might...
> >> >(3) be incompatible at the kernel level with BSDI.

> >There are people who are doing good stuff with the BSDI platform, like
> >the Viva File System, and I'd like to be able to play with it.

> He _does_ want the 386BSD C library, at least, to be fully Posix
> compliant.  As for file systems, I am not a kernel programmer, but it
> sounds like he is trying to make kernel extensions easier.

Yeh, but he's making them *different*. That's gotta hurt cooperative efforts.

I'd like to see the existing research platform stabilised to the point where
it can be used for research before playing with the documented interfaces.
-- 
Peter da Silva.  <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
 `-_-'   Oletko halannut suttasi tänään?
  'U`    
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