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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!pipex!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!netcomsv!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: Notes on the *new* FreeBSD V1.1 VM system Message-ID: <hastyCMAA6J.9DH@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <2l2mmf$me9@GRAPEVINE.LCS.MIT.EDU> <2l6i3n$rco@u.cc.utah.edu> <CM4Mq4.70D@kithrup.com> Date: Mon, 7 Mar 1994 07:30:18 GMT Lines: 21 In article <CM4Mq4.70D@kithrup.com> sef@kithrup.com (Sean Eric Fagan) writes: >In article <2l6i3n$rco@u.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) writes: > >POSIX is not an operating system. POSIX is an interface to an operating >system. It is not necessarily the only interface to any given OS. But, >then, it was never intended to be. > The above is true however if the programmer finds itself using local interfaces to accomplish the functionality not cover by posix then what good is it? Later, Amancio -- FREE unix, gcc, tcp/ip, X, open-look, interviews, tcl/tk, MIME, midi, sound at freebsd.cdrom.com:/pub/FreeBSD Amancio Hasty, Consultant | Home: (415) 495-3046 | e-mail hasty@netcom.com | ftp-site depository of all my work: ahasty@cisco.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/X