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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!pipex!uunet!news.widomaker.com!escape.widomaker.com!not-for-mail From: shendrix@escape.widomaker.com (Shannon Hendrix) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: BSD CD-ROM : Walnet Creek or Infomagic ? Date: 13 Jan 1995 22:45:08 -0500 Organization: Escape from Widomaker Lines: 26 Message-ID: <3f7hc4$er9@escape.widomaker.com> References: <3e8t0q$gnp@vishnu.jussieu.fr> <3etolp$2qr6@tiger2.ocs.lsu.edu> <D27p37.1E9@bonkers.taronga.com> <3f281t$3n4@engnews2.eng.sun.com> <D2At12.82@bonkers.taronga.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.widomaker.com peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >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. You are talking about ancient history here. This is more like where Linux *WAS*. Granted, these changes didn't take off till it was ported to other systems, but it is happening. Just that it didn't start out that way. It's a real trick to exploit a piece of hardware and yet still make the system portable. I hope they do well (BSD too). -- csh --------------------------------------------------------------------------- shendrix@escape.widomaker.com | Linux... that's it for the moment -----------------------------------+