Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 05:18:20 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Stuart Henderson <stuart@internationalschool.co.uk>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Internet Exploder inseparable from Windows? Message-ID: <19980514051820.09178@follo.net> In-Reply-To: <19980514083526.D3535@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Thu, May 14, 1998 at 08:35:26AM %2B0930 References: <199805131500.JAA04221@lariat.lariat.org> <3559D317.778BB97@internationalschool.co.uk> <19980514083526.D3535@freebie.lemis.com>
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On Thu, May 14, 1998 at 08:35:26AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Wed, 13 May 1998 at 18:06:31 +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > they're talking about an HP version as well... Linux gets a mention on > > their web page about the developers though (something about 'operating > > system of choice', I think those were the words!) > > > > in places they manage to make it sound like porting to a different unix > > is as difficult as writing a unix version in the first place... > > It's probably more difficult. A while back I saw a description of how > to use pipes with NT. What was a line or two in UNIX became the best > part of a page of LongFunctionNames and hundreds of parameters. > Posting to UNIX must imply a complete rewrite of the parts which > interface with the kernel (or even the C library). But porting to another Unix when you already have a UNIX port shouldn't be too hard unless they've _really_ screwed up. It is many years since I've seen anything that was really hard to port (except kernel drivers, and ps et al). Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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