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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: will FreeBSD run BSDI binaries
Date: Sat, 05 Oct 1996 06:17:00 -0700
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Bryan Scattergood wrote:
> We've since moved the BSDI machine to BSD/OS 2.1 and while it runs
> FreeBSD 2.1.0 binaries happily, going the other way gets us a core
> dump, even linking statically.  Is this divergence intentional?  Or are
> things likely to converge again in the future?

They already have.  You should upgrade the FreeBSD box to 2.1.5 for the
BSD/OS 2.1 compatibility. 

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- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project