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From: loodvrij@cyb.fred.com (Bruce 'Loodvrij' Keeler)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: NetBSD+FreeBSD merge urged!
Message-ID: <CDw5B7.9Ku@cyb.fred.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1993 03:49:40 GMT
References: <1993Sep18.204206.29629@diana.ocunix.on.ca> <CDn8xn.33q@sztaki.hu> <1993Sep21.201546.11569@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
Organization: Cacophonous Yodellers' Box (907) 338-4942 7-E-1
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In article <1993Sep21.201546.11569@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
>
>o	Yes, I can run SCO Xenix 286 binaries (some ioctl()'s don't work).
>o	Yes, I can run SCO Xenix 386 binaries.
>o	Yes, I can run SCO UNIX, ISC UNIX, Microport, Cubix, and Altos
>	binaries for SVR3 derivitive UNIX.
>o	Yes, I can run *statically linked* SVR4 binaries.
>o	Yes, I can run *statically linked* Linux binaries.
>o	Yes, I have a real streams (some problems with priority banding) that
>	can run the Lachman TCP/IP code and the sample streams code in the
>	SVR4 docs.
>o	Yes, I have real shared libraries not derived from Sun code.
>o	Yes, I have a user space threads implementation which is source
>	compatable with Sun's LWP.
>o	Yes, my console is Unicode and can handle Japanese, Russian, Korean,
>	etc. with only data set changes.
>o	Yes, my filesystem is localizable so that you can rename well known
>	files like "/etc" or "/etc/passwd" to the non-English equivalents
>	and programs like "passwd" can still find them.
>o	Yes, my VM has been fixed to eliminate ETXTBSY and all the failure
>	cases therein (related to NFS, etc).
>o	Yes, I have a stackable attributed filesystem with data compression
>	built in on a per file block basis.
>o	Yes, I have install disks that don't care about translated drive
>	geometries and *just work* with DOS.
>o	Yes, I have a DOS FS that can mount extended partitions and doesn't
>	need changes to the disklabel to find DOS (it reads the partition
>	table).
>o	Yes, my serial ports work correctly with flow control.
>
>NO, I CAN NOT GIVE OUT CODE WITHOUT MY EMPLOYERS PERMISSION.
>NO, MY EMPLOYER WOULD NOT LOOK KINDLY ON PEOPLE LOBBYING FOR PERMISSION.
>NO, I DON'T KNOW WHEN OR IF PERMISSION WILL BE FORTHCOMING.
>NO, I DON'T WANT A BUNCH OF MAIL ASKING ME TO "JUST SNEAK A COPY".
>

I think I can safely speak for entire comunity when I say 

	Wow.  What a ***BUMMER***!!!!!!!!!!!

>					Terry Lambert
>					terry@icarus.weber.edu
>---
>Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
>or previous employers.

Bruce
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