From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 10 9:55:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mushi.colo.neosoft.com (mushi.colo.neosoft.com [206.109.6.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E446714C9B for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 09:55:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@taronga.com) Received: (qmail 13649 invoked from network); 10 Jan 2000 17:55:10 -0000 Received: from citadel.in.taronga.com (10.0.0.43) by mushi.in.taronga.com with SMTP; 10 Jan 2000 17:55:10 -0000 Received: by citadel.in.taronga.com (Postfix, from userid 100) id 7557B32306; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 11:54:19 -0600 (CST) Subject: Re: Project UDI? In-Reply-To: from Matthew Jacob at "Jan 10, 2000 09:41:44 am" To: mjacob@feral.com Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 11:54:19 -0600 (CST) Cc: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva), hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20000110175419.7557B32306@citadel.in.taronga.com> From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Yes, I've looked at it. It's a very bad idea. I know some of the people > involved, and I spent a substantial portion of the early 90's running > aroudn doing the DDI at Sun with the notion it would bring a grand > interface for all Unices.... etc... I've seen many, many, efforts in this > area. Hmmm... I didn't see any mention of FreeBSD on the page, so I thought it'd be worthwhile raising a flag. It looked at first glance sort of like an upgraded version of Intel's RMX-86-based UDI stuff from the '80s. I don't recall that being really horrible, but I'll take your word for it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message