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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!newsfeed.rice.edu!news.sesqui.net!uuneo.neosoft.com!bonkers.taronga.com!peter From: peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: BSD CD-ROM : Walnet Creek or Infomagic ? Organization: Taronga Park BBS Message-ID: <D2EJnL.Mn1@bonkers.taronga.com> References: <3e8t0q$gnp@vishnu.jussieu.fr> <3f281t$3n4@engnews2.eng.sun.com> <D2At12.82@bonkers.taronga.com> <3f7hc4$er9@escape.widomaker.com> Date: Sat, 14 Jan 1995 15:42:57 GMT Lines: 13 In article <3f7hc4$er9@escape.widomaker.com>, Shannon Hendrix <shendrix@escape.widomaker.com> wrote: >You are talking about ancient history here. This is more like where >Linux *WAS*. It's where Linux is coming from, and there's a lot of stuff that's still dependent on the 386 environment and had to be reimplemented in the ports. They're still using the 386 model a lot more than the BSDs are. The point is, though, that saying that FreeBSD is more 386-specific than Linux is just plain wrong. Heck, in some ways that's a problem for FreeBSD: it can't use the Linux DOS emulation because that depends on the Linux 80x86 support.