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From: bob@obiwan.uucp (Bob Willcox)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.windows.x.i386unix
Subject: Re: Problems running XS3-0.3 on various S3 cards
Message-ID: <CBHsu9.3L@obiwan.uucp>
Date: 9 Aug 93 12:46:43 GMT
References: <244rr2$6jv@st-james.comp.vuw.ac.nz> <hastyCBHF68.42s@netcom.com>
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In article <hastyCBHF68.42s@netcom.com>,
Amancio Hasty Jr <hasty@netcom.com> wrote:
>XS3 does not work with NetBSD current. The good folks changed the kernel
>enough. I am sure that they had good reasons to change things a bit. 
>It is hard for me to keep upgrading or maintaining code for all 
>the variants of 386bsd. I don't have the bandwith nor a great movitation
>to do the job. Funny, how a small Unix group can get so fragmented like
>the rest of the Unix community. We are mirroring the market too closely.
>
>XS3 for 386bsd works with NetBSD-0.8, 386bsd-0.1, the 386bsd + patchkit 
>(provided that you include pccons.c)

Does this mean that XS3 will NOT work with 386bsd-0.1 + 0.2.4 + codrv?


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