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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!network.ucsd.edu!news.cerf.net!crash!fredbox!cyb!loodvrij 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 Lines: 50 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 -- Bruce J. Keeler (907) 337-8193 | "...and Bruce is in charge | Internet: loodvrij@cyb.fred.com | of the sheep dip!" |