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From: pcbsd@netcom.com (PCBSD Development Manager)
Subject: Re: Whats up with the OS/2 port of NetBSD ?
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Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1993 07:59:12 GMT
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10@Yun-Yung Jen (yyjen@gate.sinica.edu.tw) wrote:
: Is there any difference between PCBSD for OS/2 and porting GNUs with Eberhad 
: Mattes' emx.dll ? It also provides some emulation of unix under OS/2 . And How
: about X server and X client?

There are many differences.  The main being full compatibility to UNIX
Section 2 calls.  For example, we support real fork() and wait() as
well as symbolic links, full file modes, etc.
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