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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!cantor.edge.net.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!news.stealth.net!cdc2.cdc.net!news.texas.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.iquest.net!not-for-mail From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@freebsd.org> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD Date: Fri, 07 Feb 1997 00:46:29 -0500 Organization: John S. Dyson's home machine Lines: 26 Message-ID: <32FAC1B5.2781E494@freebsd.org> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <32F54717.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> <5Pp9y0gTzz1B091yn@ibm.net> <5d81k0$8j4@cynic.portal.ca> <E575K5.4yq@bigbird.telly.org> <32FA68A9.167EB0E7@freebsd.org> <5de3jm$7ei@sf18.dseg.ti.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dyson.iquest.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:156609 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2323 Harold Stevens wrote: > > In <32FA68A9.167EB0E7@freebsd.org>, "John S. Dyson" <dyson@freebsd.org>: > > [Snip...] > > > Kind of (Win 3.1 is to Win NT) is like (Linux is to FreeBSD). > > [Snip...] > > Floating Exception > IOT trap (Division by Zero) > Core dumped :) > Confusing? WinNT runs most of the old Win3.1 apps (except very machine (low level dependent) ones), FreeBSD runs most of the old Linux apps (except for the low level dependent ones.) There might be some cases where (FreeBSD, WinNT) will run code for (Linux, Win3.1), a bit more slowly. However, under load, the replacements (WinNT, FreeBSD) will win out. The correspondence isn't exact, because even older versions of FreeBSD aren't as nearly as slow as WinNT. (WinNT, FreeBSD) encompass the API's of (Win3.1, Linux) as subsets. John