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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!EU.net!sun4nl!hgatenl!tedux.hobby.nl!mo.hobby.nl!compi.hobby.nl!muts 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 References: <1994Mar8.141900.2906@wubios.wustl.edu> <michaelv.763141055@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> <Scot.11.00174D29@hk.super.net> <JU1PQqB.dysonj@delphi.com> Sender: muts@compi.hobby.nl (Peter Mutsaers) Organization: My unorganized home Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1994 22:13:57 GMT X-Attribution: PLM Message-ID: <MUTS.94Mar14231357@compi.hobby.nl> Lines: 16 >> 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. home: muts@compi.hobby.nl work: muts@fss.fokker.nl Disclaimer: This reflects the official opinions of my employer.