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From: muts@compi.hobby.nl (Peter Mutsaers)
Subject: Re: BSD vs. Linux
In-Reply-To: John Dyson's message of Fri, 11 Mar 94 11:51:45 -0500
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Sender: muts@compi.hobby.nl (Peter Mutsaers)
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Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1994 22:13:57 GMT
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>> On Fri, 11 Mar 94 11:51:45 -0500, John Dyson <dysonj@delphi.com> said:

  JD> are starting to diverge because of enhancements being made to
  JD> FreeBSD (I have heard that the VM stuff is 14K lines of
  JD> diffs!!!)  Features will be coming later.  (I want my stuff to
  JD> run -- my customers don't care that I am implementing the
  JD> debugger through a procfs instead of a ptrace system call!!)
 
Talking about (missing) features: it would be great for me if (like in
Linux) you could use ISA DMA with more than 16MB of RAM; the DMA is
done into the lower 16MB and copied if necessary.
-- 
Peter Mutsaers, Bunnik (Ut), the Netherlands.
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Disclaimer: This reflects the official opinions of my employer.