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From: mib@churchy.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Michael I Bushnell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.mach,comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: UNIX functionality for the Hurd (Was: Re: Need good OS for intel X86 platform. LINUX!!!)
Date: 01 Jun 1994 22:01:05 GMT
Organization: Free Software Foundation, Cambridge, MA
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In-reply-to: jlr@usoft.spb.su's message of Wed, 1 Jun 1994 08:01:00 GMT

In article <m0a1axZ-21s0xaD@usoft> jlr@usoft.spb.su (John Lynn Roseman) writes:

   mib@churchy.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Michael I Bushnell) writes in <MIB.94May31121730@churchy.gnu.ai.mit.edu>:
   > The Unix functionality comes from many places.  There is relatively
   > little code from BSD.  

   How much Hurd code comes from Linux?

None.

   And what about the single server?  That's a vital piece of UNIX
   functionality for the Hurd that relies on tainted BSD code.

We don't have a single server at all.

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