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From: csgr@cs.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs NetBSD
Date: 16 Sep 1994 07:21:38 GMT
Organization: Rhodes University Computing Services
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In <MICHAELV.94Sep15213050@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon) writes:
>In article <358o3g$p95@umd5.umd.edu> adhir@bigdipper.umd.edu (Alok K. Dhir) writes:
>One main difference is that NetBSD runs on a lot of different
>architectures, where FreeBSD only runs on Intelish PC's. So it has a
>lot more to pull from on multi-architecture experience. On the other
>hand, FreeBSD has a unified buffer cache and bounce buffers for using
>ISA SCSI cards on machines with >16MB of RAM.
Just to allay confusion, I'd like to point out one or two things:
- Support for bounce buffers is included in FreeBSD from version 1.1.5
onwards. That means, it already is out there and available in an
official release. (It is obviously also part of 2.x.)
- The unified VM/buffer cache code is still under development, and will
only be available in FreeBSD 2.x
Geoff.
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