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From: cgd@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: NetBSD FreeBSD LINUX and BSDI Unixes
Date: 9 Feb 94 21:15:04
Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us
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Message-ID: <CGD.94Feb9211504@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
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In-reply-to: jfw@ksr.com's message of 9 Feb 1994 19:06:44 GMT

In article <2jbc84$1j1@hopscotch.ksr.com> jfw@ksr.com (John F. Woods) writes:
>NetBSD and FreeBSD are derivatives of Bill Jolitz' port of 4.3BSD/Net2 to
>the PC architecture ("386BSD").

This isn't a very accurate statement.

Yes, the i386 code in NetBSD is originally derived from 386BSD,
but basically all of the differences between Net/2 and 386BSD
have been removed (because a lot of them were bogus).  In the
case of things like execve(), etc., they've been rewritten from
scratch.

Also, NetBSD currently runs (i.e. is stable, usable, etc.)
on the following architectures:

amiga
hp300
i386
mac (limited models)
sparc

and significant work has been done on:

pc532
pmax
sun3


It's *much* more than "i386".


cgd
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chris g. demetriou                                   cgd@cs.berkeley.edu

                    smarter than your average clam.