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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: <pcbsdCGK5qt.EIq@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8] References: <35234@ksr.com> Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1993 00:08:53 GMT Lines: 14 John F. Woods (jfw@ksr.com) wrote: : Actually, the original version has the advantage of reminding one that the : dead weight of OS/2 is likely to crush the life out of any application run : in this manner... ;-) That is not entirely correct. There is some overhead generated by using OS/2 kernel via the xxxBSD kernel emulator(?), but the overhead is small, and is acceptable when faced with the possibility of NO xxxBSD capabilities on OS/2. -- --------------------------------- ------------------------------ -- PCBSD Development Manager -- -- Service Commitment Support -- --------------------------------- ------------------------------