From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 28 11:31:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA50215481 for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 11:31:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA29128; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 11:31:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 11:31:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Deepu Sebastian Joseph Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Deepu Sebastian Joseph wrote: > Please excuse, if this is the wrong place to ask. I am a newbie when > it comes to kernels. Some where I saw UNix System V R4 is derived from > BSD. I thought all Sys V stuff was related to AT&T Code. I am reading > a book by Maurice BAch. Are the basic data structures and simple > algorithms like managing free buffers etc same in BSD too. No. BSD is "derived" from a much, much earlier version of UNIX. I don't know what you're referring to in terms of 'basic data structures', but you can probably assume 'yes, they are different.' You'll have to check them. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message