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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!news.delphi.com!usenet From: John Dyson <dysonj@delphi.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: BSD for the Sun386i Date: Mon, 9 May 94 12:00:50 -0500 Organization: Delphi (info@delphi.com email, 800-695-4005 voice) Lines: 26 Message-ID: <Boyt076.dysonj@delphi.com> References: <2qcljn$gqt@norm.eng.gtefsd.com> <michaelv.768258619@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> <ho4MM7o.dysonj@delphi.com> <2qk8uf$kok@panix2.panix.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bos1c.delphi.com X-To: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@panix.com> Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@panix.com> writes: >>Ahww, come on now... The machine independant portions of FreeBSD >>are just as architecture neutral as NetBSD. There have been some I386 > >Uh...almost, at best. > >Can we say, "sio and hacks on the tty code", kids? > >There, I knew we could. Yes, FreeBSD uses ring-buffers instead of clists -- can we say theoretically faster... I thought you could... The tty code is not machine dependent, except for possibly a botch. Again, we have not done a port to another architecture YET, but we will *very* soon. BTW, sorry, for the smart-alecky response. I personally would prefer that we (FreeBSD) used clists, but we dont. I would rather throw away an unmeasurable performance advantage for compatibility. But thats the breaks!!! John dyson@implode.root.com