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Date:      Wed, 30 Sep 1998 16:10:17 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        ctapang@easystreet.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: What would it take to build the FreeBSD kernel into Portable Executable (PE) format?
Message-ID:  <19980930161017.T16936@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <199809300646.QAA03427@cimlogic.com.au>; from John Birrell on Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 04:46:15PM %2B1000
References:  <20241.907136673@time.cdrom.com> <199809300646.QAA03427@cimlogic.com.au>

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On Wednesday, 30 September 1998 at 16:46:15 +1000, John Birrell wrote:
> Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
>>>> Interesting.  This parallels my ongoing work in rewriting FreeBSD in
>>>> GNU Emacs LISP.
>>>
>>> I thought it has decided that rewriting the FreeBSD kernel in Java was
>>> the more portable solution.
>>
>> Ah, but you should see locore.el - it's sheer beauty to behold! :-)
>
> Does it work in vi, or does that require nvi? I guess it probably requires
> an async call gate. I must ask Terry. 8-)

No.  FreeBSD never ran on the 286, and for the same reasons it will
never run on vi.

Greg
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