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Subject: Re: Token Ring (really)
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"Jay West" <jwest@ezwind.net> wrote:

> this is for a historical re-creation project ...
>
> I guess I'll have to see how tough it would be to yank
> the TR code from 7x and get it running under 9x.

Might it not be both more historically accurate, and a great deal
easier, to just use the version of FreeBSD that corresponds to the
historical era being re-created?