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From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr)
Subject: Re: Leadership
Message-ID: <hastyC5z10p.Buo@netcom.com>
Keywords: netbsd, 386bsd and beyond
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References: <C5yH0F.Hn6@ns1.nodak.edu>
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1993 04:41:13 GMT
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What is interesting is that the Unix culture keeps getting fragmented and
diluted after so many years. Oh, well...

When I started hacking on 386bsd a year ago, I read DDJ's articles on 386BSD
for  quidelines on what to do. For instance, we had a problem with processes
heavily compute bound either freezing the system or rendering timesharing
useless. By reading, Bill & Lynne's articles I was able to create a simple
patch to correct the problem. Another example, was kern_execve.c, we had a
lot of problems with it in the beginning and several of us found an article
with an updated kern_execve.c ( I happily downloaded it to my system).
There was an article on loadable drivers for 386bsd...

	Hope this helps,
	Amancio

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