From owner-freebsd-platforms Sun Mar 16 17:25:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA09032 for platforms-outgoing; Sun, 16 Mar 1997 17:25:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA08967 for ; Sun, 16 Mar 1997 17:24:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from werple.net.au (melb.werple.net.au [203.9.190.18]) by who.cdrom.com (8.8.5/8.6.11) with SMTP id QAA23744 for ; Sun, 16 Mar 1997 16:03:12 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 10933 invoked by uid 999); 17 Mar 1997 00:02:56 -0000 Received: (from jb@localhost) by freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA02054; Mon, 17 Mar 1997 09:21:12 +1100 (EST) From: John Birrell Message-Id: <199703162221.JAA02054@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au> Subject: Re: Some one working on a SPARC version? To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 09:21:11 +1100 (EST) Cc: phk@critter.dk.tfs.com, terry@lambert.org, pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co, jb@cimlogic.com.au, srn@flibble.psrg.cs.usyd.edu.au, freebsd-platforms@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199703162144.OAA06368@phaeton.artisoft.com> from Terry Lambert at "Mar 16, 97 02:44:45 pm" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-platforms@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Terry Lambert wrote: > > Well, some of us at least... :-) > > He had a smiley with a wink there, later. > > I was questioning the general mentality behind the Aristotilian mean > that says "there must be a 'them' for there to be an 'us'". I get awfully confused about who is/are "them" and who is/are "us". 8-) The time that would be spent porting NetBSD/Sparc or NetBSD/Alpha to FreeBSD would be better spent making *BSD userland code build and run on NetBSD/* _and_ FreeBSD/i386. Let FreeBSD kernel hackers hack FreeBSD/i386 and let FreeBSD userland hackers hack *BSD. Remove the "wall" and agree that there are lots of things that will continue to differ between FreeBSD and NetBSD, but accept the fact that there are a *lot* of things that can remain the same -- build on that. > > I just happen to disagree with the hidden assumptions that led to > his smiley. Me 2. > terry@lambert.org -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@netbsd.org CIMlogic Pty Ltd, 119 Cecil Street, South Melbourne Vic 3205, Australia Tel +61 3 9690 6900 Fax +61 3 9690 6650 Mob +61 418 353 137