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From: sef@Kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
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Date: 21 Feb 1993 13:58:44 -0800
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In article <fZDtP0x@quack.sac.ca.us> dfox@quack.sac.ca.us (David Fox) writes:
>In article <C2qyyp.Hn1@sugar.neosoft.com> peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>>(3) be incompatible
>>at the kernel level with BSDI.
>Who cares about (3)? (grin)

*I* do.  Most people should.

All sorts of intelligent, resourceful, and knowledgeable people are using
BSDI's product.  Quite a few of these people might like to see any code
they write made freely available.  But if it is only useful to bsd/386,
why should they bother?

I spent an hour last night getting a single routine working from bsd/386
to 386bsd.  The differences were small but annoying, and they're only going
to get worse.