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From: cambria@sscp.lkg.dec.com (Michael C. Cambria)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1 <-> 4.4BSD Lite?
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 10:18:10 -0500
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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In article <30A580C9.167EB0E7@FreeBSD.org>,
"Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> Some of the Lite2 features have been merged, though not all of them.  We
> weren't exactly standing still post-44Lite and in some areas we've
> diverged, ..... [deleted]

As FreeBSD continues to move (ie. Posix support for realtime 1003.b,
kernel(?) pthreads 1003.c), will the 4.4BSD-Lite sources even be close
as time goes on?

Thanks,
Mike