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Subject: Re: What people are doing with FBSD 
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Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1995 11:27:23 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> It's a daunting task.  Never mind the Sparc assembly code, which seems
> to be mostly gratuitous except for some code that flushes register
> windows.  There are a *lot* of dependencies on the Sparc register set,
> stack layout, Solaris threads, etc....  Ah, well.  I can never resist
> a grungy language port.

To say nothing of the threads requirements.  I've sent a couple of
messages to Chris Provenzano lately, but he never replies.. :-( We
need to figure out what our thread support situation in FreeBSD is
going to be..

					Jordan