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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!hamblin.math.byu.edu!news.byu.edu!cwis.isu.edu!u.cc.utah.edu!cs.weber.edu!terry From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: Re: Porting NetBSD to OS/2 and Windows NT Date: 13 Nov 1993 07:28:12 GMT Organization: Weber State University, Ogden, UT Lines: 39 Message-ID: <2c22ac$fob@u.cc.utah.edu> References: <crt.753111416@tiamat.umd.umich.edu> <pcbsdCGE4oI.5zw@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.weber.edu In article <pcbsdCGE4oI.5zw@netcom.com> pcbsd@netcom.com (PCBSD Development Manager) writes: >Rob Shady (crt@tiamat.umd.umich.edu) wrote: >: pcbsd@netcom.com (PCBSD Development Manager) writes: > >: >I am working on a port of the current NetBSD sources to OS/2. In order > >: Not to sound ignorant, but what the heck are you talking about??? NetBSD >: is an *OPERATING SYSTEM*, you don't port it to another *OPERATING SYSTEM* >: you port it to a Platform, ie: NetBSD 'ports' to Intel 386/486's, Sun 3's, >: some HP, etc... NOT to OS/2, Windows/NT, DOS, or ANYTHING similar.. >: What exactly do you think you would be able to accomplish, assuming you >: could EVER get NetBSD to run "under" OS/2 or Windows/NT???? > >It is possible to consider an operating system a platform, which is what >I am doing. The PCBSD project is writing a xxxBSD kernel that would run >as a subsystem on OS/2 and NT, and provide all of the Section 2 calls. Actually, hosted OS projects are quite common; several examples: o UNIX on MACH o OS/2 on MACH o NetWare on OS/2 o NetWare on UNIX (NetWare for UNIX -- NWU) o DOS on MACH o DOS on UNIX o Windows on DOS o Windows on UNIX o Windows on OS/2 o Windows on NT o Mac on DOS etc., etc., etc. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.