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From: st@epcc.ed.ac.uk (Scott Telford)
Subject: Re: How compatible should kernel be?
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In article <62v6SxqZo$B@rimki.toppoint.de>, Christoph Rimek
(chrimek@rimki.toppoint.de) wrote:

>     COMPAT_43           4.3 BSD compatible system calls
[..]
> 
> IMO the first should be enabled, although I cannot clearly say why.

ISTR you need COMPAT_43 on /i386 in order to run BSD/OS binaries (I think
I needed it for the BSD/OS Netscape 1.12).

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