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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!news From: wagner@main.mndly.umn.edu (Rick Wagner) Subject: Re: Whats up with the OS/2 port of NetBSD? Message-ID: <CItq9C.4rJ@news2.cis.umn.edu> Sender: news@news2.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration) Nntp-Posting-Host: dialup-2-183.gw.umn.edu Reply-To: wagner@main.mndly.umn.edu (Rick Wagner) Organization: The Minnesota Daily X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.00 References: <CIsAFt.Hq0@news2.cis.umn.edu> <2fs77e$oat@sparc10.entropic.com> <CIt1Dy.I0G@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <crt.757187888@tiamat.umd.umich.edu> Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1993 01:11:16 GMT Lines: 25 In <crt.757187888@tiamat.umd.umich.edu>, crt@tiamat.umd.umich.edu (Rob Shady) writes: >>>Um, I'm confused. How are you going to port an operating system to another >>>operating system? Or am I just being dense? >>Hey, sorry for the second post on this subject. I just thought of something. >>Perhaps OS/2 was supposed to be PS/2 ... that would make alot more sense. >Nope, the original poster was correct in stating "an OS/2 port." A >gentleman had suggested that he was doing extensive work in porting NetBSD >to run UNDER OS/2. At the time, several of us had gotten into discussions >as to HOW and WHY! he would want to do this. I still do not feel that it >will work, or work decently anyways, but I guess his work waddles on. I >do not know who the gentleman was, but the posts were not in this newsgroup >(as far I can remember). From what I understand, he has a team of programmers >and some people funding his project as well... It was on one of the 386bsd groups. This seemed like the proper one to enquire on (I hate crossposting). I'd find it useful for programming as I love my OS/2 development stuff and simply copying it over to a NetBSD window would make life easy. Anybody remember who it was? I'm really wishing I saved the information now. *sigh* Rick W.