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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:2381 comp.os.linux.misc:13496 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!uknet!cf-cm!cybaswan!iiitac From: iiitac@uk.ac.swan.pyr (Alan Cox) Subject: Re: PLEASE (was Re: Impressions: FreeBSD vs Linux) Message-ID: <1994Apr20.103019.6349@uk.ac.swan.pyr> Organization: Swansea University College References: <CoHInG.312@acsu.buffalo.edu> <CoI4Gz.FLo@cs.ruu.nl> <1994Apr19.161831.18774@kf8nh.wariat.org> Date: Wed, 20 Apr 1994 10:30:19 GMT Lines: 21 In article <1994Apr19.161831.18774@kf8nh.wariat.org> bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) writes: >Or better yet, into fixing the shortcomings of both. On the other hand, most >of us developers have gotten used to ignoring the antics of the >"camp-followers" of both systems... :-( > Two things that I think may be worth doing (one I intend to do anyway as I want to learn a bit more about the syscall side of stuff and 386 assembly behaviour) are a Linux->BSD emulator layer , and a BSD->Linux emulator layer. Also who feels like chopping down DosEMU and writing a Minix emulator.. [I collect emulators BTW: My Linux box is currently being Z80 CP/M, ZX spectrum, CBM 64, TRS-80, DOS, iBCS2, and Linux I'm after any others... ]