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From: pink@fsz.bme.hu (Szabolcs Szigeti (PinkPanther))
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: DooM for NetBSD, will it become a reali
Date: 22 Sep 1994 07:29:01 GMT
Organization: Department of Process Control, Technical University of Budapest, Hungary
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While thinking about the possible [Net|Free]BSD version of Doom, as an interim
measure, how about trying to write something like "COMPAT_LINUX".

NetBSD already has four (more or less working) compat options (sunos, ultrix,
svr4, ibcs2) and it has an excellent way of adding more of these. I'm sure
FreeBSD has something similar.

This would not also give us Doom until ID ports it (hopefully), but
should give an ultimate answer to the Linux or BSD, which is better talk. 
Until of course Linux gets a COMPAT_*BSD :-). (No flames please, it's a joke!)

I'll start reading the Linux docs today!

PS.: I know it's not *that* easy.

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