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From: jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Binaries for *bsd (specifically nntpd)
Date: 09 Dec 1993 19:12:14 GMT
Organization: Dublin, Ireland
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References: <dhatz.755362734@news.forth.gr>
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In-reply-to: dhatz@nemesis.csi.forth.gr's message of 8 Dec 1993 17:09:35 +0200

In article <dhatz.755362734@news.forth.gr> dhatz@nemesis.csi.forth.gr (Dhmhtrhs Hatzopoulos) writes:

   If I understand correctly (I'm very new to 386bsd), NetBSD can run
   any binary from FreeBSD, 386bsd and many BSD/386 ones, but not vice
   versa, right?

Nope.  FreeBSD will now also run 386BSD, NetBSD and BSD/386 binaries
as well.

				Jordan
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(Jordan K. Hubbard)  jkh@violet.berkeley.edu, jkh@al.org, jkh@whisker.lotus.ie