From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun Nov 29 14:25:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA09934 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Sun, 29 Nov 1998 14:25:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from duhnet.net (like.duh.org [207.30.95.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA09929 for ; Sun, 29 Nov 1998 14:25:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tv@pobox.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by duhnet.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1/Duh-2.1.0) with ESMTP id RAA12298Sun, 29 Nov 1998 17:23:37 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 17:23:36 -0500 (EST) From: Todd Vierling X-Sender: tv@duhnet.net To: cyber@ecst.csuchico.edu cc: adrian@ubergeeks.com, grog@lemis.com, netbsd-advocacy@NetBSD.ORG, FreeBSD-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, advocacy@openbsd.org Subject: Re: Merging Net/Free/Open-BSD together against Linux In-Reply-To: <19981129182228.29992.qmail@measles.ecst.csuchico.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 29 Nov 1998 cyber@ecst.csuchico.edu wrote: : 1. Agree on a new API : Adjust toolchains/kernel/libs to support this API : This API would exist as a binary emulation where appropriatee. : The same API would then exist across all platforms and : binaries written on one would work on all. You sound like you're proposing an ABI, not an API. In general, all three BSDs have the same API, which is Net/2 and 4.4BSD based. So, `sounds like 86open.' Yeah, that went over well. (Their site, www.telly.org/86open/, has not been updated since November 1997.) -- -- Todd Vierling (Personal tv@pobox.com; Bus. todd_vierling@xn.xerox.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message