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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: ideas from netbsd
To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 1995 12:51:51 -0700 (MST)
Cc: graichen@sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
In-Reply-To: <20412.815613205@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Nov 5, 95 03:13:25 pm
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> > * another thing is the COMPAT_FREEBSD option (... and code) - i think
> > it would be a good idea to have something similar for NetBSD
> > (COMPAT_NETBSD) in FreeBSD - i think it should be relatively easy to
> 
> Uh.  Why? :-)
> 
> I believe the big reason for them having COMPAT_FREEBSD to run our
> packages, which is a perfectly reasonable thing.  From the opposite
> point of view, I can't think of *any* applications (save AFS, which
> isn't even an app) that run only on NetBSD and aren't available in
> FreeBSD versions.

Linux DOSEMU.  Other VM86().


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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