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Date:      Wed, 17 Mar 1999 11:36:32 +1030 (CST)
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG, Mikhail Teterin <mi@kot.ne.mediaone.net>
Subject:   Re: latest -current doesn't execute BSDI-binary bladeenc
Message-ID:  <XFMail.990317113632.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <xzpbthtkk8o.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>

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On 17-Mar-99 Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> > that bladeenc does not run, the problem is that a BSDI executable
> > does not run. Which breaks a promise from
>  The bug is on the web site, not in the kernel. David Greenman
>  committed a patch to better support large memory configurations.
>  Unfortunately, it seems this was not possible to achieve without
>  breaking BSDI compatibility.

Would it be feasable to have an option to switch between the two?

I can see people wanting BSDI compatibility and not having large quantities of RAM being
fairly common.

---
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum


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