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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!uknet!gdt!aber!fronta.aber.ac.uk!pcg From: pcg@aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) Subject: Re: Porting NetBSD to OS/2 and Windows NT In-Reply-To: terry@cs.weber.edu's message of 13 Nov 1993 07: 28:12 GMT Message-ID: <PCG.93Nov14215914@frontb.aber.ac.uk> Sender: news@aber.ac.uk (USENET news service) Nntp-Posting-Host: frontb.aber.ac.uk Reply-To: pcg@aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) Organization: Prifysgol Cymru, Aberystwyth References: <crt.753111416@tiamat.umd.umich.edu> <pcbsdCGE4oI.5zw@netcom.com> <2c22ac$fob@u.cc.utah.edu> Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1993 21:59:14 GMT Lines: 33 >>> On 13 Nov 1993 07:28:12 GMT, terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth >>> C) said: Terry> In article <pcbsdCGE4oI.5zw@netcom.com> pcbsd@netcom.com (PCBSD Terry> Development Manager) writes: pcbsd> It is possible to consider an operating system a platform, which pcbsd> is what I am doing. The PCBSD project is writing a xxxBSD kernel pcbsd> that would run as a subsystem on OS/2 and NT, and provide all of pcbsd> the Section 2 calls. Interesting project! IBM have had the same idea: rumour has it that OS/2 3.x will be actually Mach or OSF/1 with AIX, OS/2, Mac, POSIX, etc. personality modules. But surely PCBSD under OS/2 2.x is an interesting idea, given the diffusion that OS/2 2.x has already achieved. Terry> Actually, hosted OS projects are quite common; several examples: Terry> [ ... ] Terry> o NetWare on OS/2 Terry> o NetWare on UNIX (NetWare for UNIX -- NWU) Well, this does not amount to porting NetWare, the OS; it is rather supplying under OS/2 and UNIX the IPX protocol stack and daemons that use the services defined by it. As far as I know you cannot run NetWare binaries or compile NetWare sources if you have NetWare under OS/2 or Unix; the Netware implementation is native. Terry> [ ... ] Terry> etc., etc., etc. Just to go far back, TSS under Multics and TOPS under Twenex; not to mention 7090/1400 under 360 (more of a hw than a sw thing though).