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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!darkstar.UCSC.EDU!news.hal.COM!decwrl!vixie!vixie From: vixie@vix.com (Paul A Vixie) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: 386BSD Remarkable? (was Re: Call for 386BSD Rel.1.0 SIG (Special Interest Group)) Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.misc Date: 28 Aug 94 02:36:16 Organization: Vixie Enterprises Lines: 28 Message-ID: <VIXIE.94Aug28023616@office.home.vix.com> References: <FOO-MAN.94Aug23191512@raven.raven.csrv.uidaho.edu> <jmonroyCv2Iw2.AD9@netcom.com> <1994Aug25.074246.4082@cs.brown.edu> <Cv5u8o.CEn@calcite.rhyolite.com> <1994Aug27.175807.20821@cs.brown.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: office.home.vix.com In-reply-to: mhw@cs.brown.edu's message of Sat, 27 Aug 1994 17:58:07 GMT > But I think 386BSD was a bit more than that. For instance, the VM system > was replaced with Mach's VM. "?", said Paul with his eyebrows. Mach VM was in BNR2. Here's the top of gatekeeper.dec.com:~ftp/pub/BSD/net2/sys/vm/vm_map.c, dated 21Apr91: /* * Copyright (c) 1991 Regents of the University of California. * All rights reserved. * * This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by * The Mach Operating System project at Carnegie-Mellon University. * > I may be showing my ignorance here, because I really don't know for sure > how much is missing from Net/2. :-) 386BSD was a steaming crock of sh*t. And as much as I might occasionally rail against the FreeBSD and NetBSD camps for their endless counterproductive bickering, I have to salute both groups since I saw what they started from and I've seen what they have now and the difference in quality is STAGGERING. -- Paul Vixie Redwood City, CA decwrl!vixie!paul <paul@vix.com>