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From: lukka@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Tuomas J Lukka)
Subject: Re: 386BSD Posix Compliance
Message-ID: <1993Feb27.160355.5375@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
Organization: University of Helsinki
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Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1993 16:03:55 GMT
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>If 0.2 is significantly incompatible with 0.1 at the kernel level, without
>some compelling breakthrough to offset this cost, then I can guarantee that
>there *will* be a fork with lots of people sticking to 386BSD-classic and
>probably creating a new baseline distribution.

Actually, I think this will not be necessary...

J&J (The Jolitzes) are planning on making the interface using C++.
There's absolutely nothing that prevents you from making a compatibility
layer using that interface.. Because the device *operations* cannot
change a lot, just about all it would take would be to make
some stub functions and you could have your [bc]devsw and all.

Also, because the kernel would be a lot more modular, it should not
be too difficult to achieve this.

	TJL