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From: crt@tiamat.umd.umich.edu (Rob Shady)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: Porting NetBSD to OS/2 and Windows NT
Date: 15 Nov 1993 09:11:14 -0500
Organization: Univerisity of Michigan - Dearborn
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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
>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.

I may very well be wrong, but I don't see how it is going to be possible
to take an operating system, such as NetBSD, that is very critical about
timing as it is (owning the entire CPU), and run that UNDER another 
operating system that is multiple times SLOWER...  I would be interested
in seeing some final specifications if you figure out a way for this
to work.