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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: FYI.. benchmarks on linux and 386bsd
Date: 21 Oct 1993 00:21:01 GMT
Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman  MT
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In article <2a4cfg$5l@pdq.coe.montana.edu>,
Jaye Mathisen <osyjm@cs.montana.edu> wrote:
>In article <29j7ru$bfs@klaava.helsinki.fi>,
>Linus Torvalds <torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI> wrote:
>>I assume the 386BSD crowd are still using my original emulator due to
>>copyright reasons (I waived the GPL for that one, and made it "freely
>>available for the 386bsd project" or whatever).  It's much slower, and
>
>I think *BSD got permission from Bill to use his newest one, but Nate wimped
>out on merging it.

Yeah, 'wimped out'. :-)

It was a bit more difficult than just adding to the tree, I'll tell you what.


Nate

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