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From: sef@kithrup.com (Sean Eric Fagan)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0 - a status report.
Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd.
Message-ID: <CyMBFF.Kw5@kithrup.com>
References: <38j31l$6nf@agate.berkeley.edu> <38to0m$k6d@fw.novatel.ca> <3937bd$l19@masala.cc.uh.edu> <395qr4$msb@pdq.coe.montana.edu>
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 1994 02:11:38 GMT
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In article <395qr4$msb@pdq.coe.montana.edu>,
Nate Williams <nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu> wrote:
>The fact of the matter is that to the FreeBSD folks
>ibsc2 emulatin is more important than MSDOS FS support.

Actually, I started the ibcs2 project because a) I know SCOnix very well, b)
it seems obvious to me that BSD on a '386 should be able to run SCO
binaries, and c) BSDi did it, so why not FreeBSD?

In other words, yes, I did it because it was fun, not because I thought
anyone would really want it.  Same reason I did the ptrace() rewrite, and
the procfs work. ;)