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From: iiitac@uk.ac.swan.pyr (Alan Cox)
Subject: Re: PLEASE (was Re: Impressions: FreeBSD vs Linux)
Message-ID: <1994Apr20.103019.6349@uk.ac.swan.pyr>
Organization: Swansea University College
References: <CoHInG.312@acsu.buffalo.edu> <CoI4Gz.FLo@cs.ruu.nl> <1994Apr19.161831.18774@kf8nh.wariat.org>
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 1994 10:30:19 GMT
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In article <1994Apr19.161831.18774@kf8nh.wariat.org> bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
>Or better yet, into fixing the shortcomings of both.  On the other hand, most
>of us developers have gotten used to ignoring the antics of the
>"camp-followers" of both systems... :-(
>
Two things that I think may be worth doing (one I intend to do anyway as I want
to learn a bit more about the syscall side of stuff and 386 assembly behaviour)
are a Linux->BSD emulator layer , and a BSD->Linux emulator layer. 

Also who feels like chopping down DosEMU and writing a Minix emulator..

[I collect emulators BTW: My Linux box is currently being

	Z80 CP/M,  ZX spectrum, CBM 64, TRS-80,
	DOS, iBCS2, and Linux 
	
	I'm after any others...
]