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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!destroyer!news.itd.umich.edu!tiamat.umd.umich.edu!crt From: crt@tiamat.umd.umich.edu (Rob Shady) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: Re: Whats up with the OS/2 port of NetBSD? Date: 29 Dec 1993 13:02:16 -0500 Organization: Univerisity of Michigan - Dearborn Lines: 18 Message-ID: <crt.757187888@tiamat.umd.umich.edu> References: <CIsAFt.Hq0@news2.cis.umn.edu> <2fs77e$oat@sparc10.entropic.com> <CIt1Dy.I0G@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: cw-u03.umd.umich.edu >>>A while ago there were some posts about an OS/2 port of NetBSD. Anybody >>>know how its going? Do you need more help? How about a contact person? >>Um, I'm confused. How are you going to port an operating system to another >>operating system? Or am I just being dense? >Hey, sorry for the second post on this subject. I just thought of something. >Perhaps OS/2 was supposed to be PS/2 ... that would make alot more sense. Nope, the original poster was correct in stating "an OS/2 port." A gentleman had suggested that he was doing extensive work in porting NetBSD to run UNDER OS/2. At the time, several of us had gotten into discussions as to HOW and WHY! he would want to do this. I still do not feel that it will work, or work decently anyways, but I guess his work waddles on. I do not know who the gentleman was, but the posts were not in this newsgroup (as far I can remember). From what I understand, he has a team of programmers and some people funding his project as well...