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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!pacbell.com!amdahl!netcomsv!netcom.com!pcbsd From: pcbsd@netcom.com (PCBSD Development Manager) Subject: Re: Porting NetBSD to OS/2 and Windows NT Message-ID: <pcbsdCGK571.DAG@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8] References: <crt.753372521@tiamat.umd.umich.edu> Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1993 23:57:01 GMT Lines: 25 Rob Shady (crt@tiamat.umd.umich.edu) wrote: : 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. The PCBSD kernel is written anew to use OS/2 kernel and device drivers instead of hardware. As far as OS/2 being slower ... -- --------------------------------- ------------------------------ -- PCBSD Development Manager -- -- Service Commitment Support -- --------------------------------- ------------------------------