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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!netnews.upenn.edu!dsinc!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!usenet-feed.umr.edu!rocket.cc.umr.edu!dhickman From: dhickman@rocket.cc.umr.edu (David H Hickman ) Subject: Re: DooM for NetBSD, will it become a reality References: <36c2o6$jea@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 00:04:30 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: rocket.cc.umr.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8] Organization: University of Missouri-Rolla, Missouri's Technological University Sender: cnews@umr.edu (UMR Usenet News Administration) Message-ID: <1994Sep29.000430.9809@umr.edu> Lines: 86 Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@violet.berkeley.edu) wrote: : In article <1994Sep28.015643.4667@umr.edu>, : David H Hickman <dhickman@rocket.cc.umr.edu> wrote: : >then run linux.... god. why do you guys want all of this compatability when if you run the realthing it is better... cause Linux supports bsd stuff along with sco and etc. : Dare I respond? Oh what the heck.. Emulation is a perfectly viable way : to have your cake and eat it too, as over 1 million OS/2 users will tell : you. Not that I'm saying Linux == Windows and FreeBSD == OS/2 by this : analogy; I receive enough junk mail as it is, thank you! :-) : >if bsd is so damn good why hasn't doom been ported to it.... if i remember corectly bsd sure has been around longer than linux. Hell doom has even portted to windoze, and mac. : Uhhh... BIFF? BIFF, is that you? How nice to see that you've finally : learned to use lower-case! Getting that thing out of caps-lock can : be a real bitch, can't it? So... So nice to see that you've decided to take : temporary leave from comp.sys.atari and join us here in the BSD groups! : Maybe we'll finally get a decent WAREZ collection for *BSD, eh? :-) well i am not BIFF. But to tell you the truth it is so interestin how people view their os as a religion. Right now I thing linux is the best but to tell you the truth the instant something better comes out i will put it on one of my machines. Especally if either Linux or bsd come out with a FREE mach version. that is the major weakness of Linux is it is so damn monolithic. But you do see versions of bsd floting around on alot of machines.... but to also be honest I love playing devil's advocate :). : Oh, BTW, in this newsgroup we generally hit "return" every 70 characters : or so - we can't get our BSD console drivers to go to 1,452 columns : by using *really tiny one pixel fonts* like you do. I know, we're : "totul lamerz!" - help us BIFF, help us! We need your enlightened : guidance to become cool! well i do run 132x80 in text mode. but i am rarelry in text mode unless X is screwed up So i usually run color Xterm which does all of the usual text wraping and stuff. btw i do not know if bsd has it but run Xterm with the 12x24romankana font. ok i guess i am willing to give a honest look at bsd if it can meet these specs. 1. ext2fs support. 2. fat file system support. 3. how good is bsd iBCS2 emulation. It must be able to run WP5.1 and Corel Draw. 4. X must be able to run 1152 900 resolution. ( anything lower sucks) 5. GUS support. 6. proven SLIP support. If there is a distrubution of BSD that supports this I will ftp it and try it out. hell, as i said i will probally try it out on one of my machines. : Jordan -- dhickman@umr.edu -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6 mQCNAi5j7R4AAAEEAMzp1UKMqUzVmNaCfKWnu5mMst2DCWvmPNiEtdZOkrgSZe72 o2LCUtVzqunNkPq/WYdvGBkMBYhkkS69X9sfxGiTx8ceKXuijEzYKTT52cDkxli+ YHRUE1iJbhps10mDw5ukmHaT71OQ1Nwc+4O8CehHT8rhMU7ixShZvLeYDqxRAAUR tAZ4aWFtYXQ= =O+qm -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- *********************************************************************** ** " Why would you want to run UNIX when you can run RISC ... " ** ** - A South West Missouri CIS Graduate with a 4.0 ** *********************************************************************** *********************************************************************** ** "Dude I do not know enough about unix to know what a pgp key is ** ** - Another SMSU CIS Major ** *********************************************************************** ************************************************************************ ** "The /tmp directory on the RS/6000 is not for individual user use ** ** Any use of the /tmp will place that user in violation of the laws ** ** Of the State of Missouri" - SMSU Sysadm root@nic.smsu.edu ** ************************************************************************