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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!newsfeed.rice.edu!news.sesqui.net!uuneo.neosoft.com!bonkers.taronga.com!peter From: peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: BSD CD-ROM : Walnet Creek or Infomagic ? Organization: Taronga Park BBS Message-ID: <D2At12.82@bonkers.taronga.com> References: <3e8t0q$gnp@vishnu.jussieu.fr> <3etolp$2qr6@tiger2.ocs.lsu.edu> <D27p37.1E9@bonkers.taronga.com> <3f281t$3n4@engnews2.eng.sun.com> Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 15:15:01 GMT Lines: 10 In article <3f281t$3n4@engnews2.eng.sun.com>, John Plocher (PADI AI-85274) <plocher@scuba.net> wrote: >Far Left: Hack everything to be as hardware specific as it can be. > After all, "all the world is a VAX^H^H^Hx86" This is more like where Linux is. It's certainly not the position FreeBSD is taking. Look at all the flamage about the Linux VM system in the Minix groups when Linux was getting started, and how the Linux people defended it as being entirely appropriate for the 386 and they didn't much care about anything else.