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From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: 386BSD Posix Compliance
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1993 23:55:30 GMT
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References: <1993Feb25.080612.16553@gmd.de> <C308pG.2v6@sugar.neosoft.com> <1993Feb26.092011.17475@gmd.de>
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In article <1993Feb26.092011.17475@gmd.de> veit@fanoe.gmd.de (Holger Veit) writes:
> You should explain what your "new and novel software components" you have in
> mind are.

Well, the Viva file system, for example. Interesting extensions to the file
system to reduce the special cases in the API (for example, replacing time()
with a read() from /dev/time). That sort of stuff. It's been something I've
wanted to get into forever, and one of the reasons I got into the Amiga (since
it has the hooks for this sort of thing). But if the kernel interface is going
to change on 0.2, I don't have any reason to expect woon't on 0.3, 0.4, and
so on. PLUS, a lot of this work is using BSDI as a base (frankly, it's a lot
more stable).

The rest seems to be personal, so I'll refrain from continuing.
-- 
Peter da Silva.  <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
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