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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: ISP hardware/software choices (performance comparison)
Date: 18 Jan 1996 04:08:15 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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thurlow@peyto.eng.sun.com (Robert Thurlow) wrote:
]
] In article <4de8vg$6nh@park.uvsc.edu>,
] Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> wrote:
]
] >You are obviously blissfully aware of how Sun and USL maintain
] >their source trees. It is difficult (if not impossible) to get
] >cross-platform changes done in their environment.
]
] It hasn't been this way for that long, but Solaris now has a
] single source base. Non-platform-specific code is shared,
] and platform-specific code is in subdirectories.
YES! Happily refuted!
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.