From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 10 9:57:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BD5B152F8 for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 09:57:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from semuta.feral.com (semuta [192.67.166.70]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA00508; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 09:57:25 -0800 Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 09:57:14 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Peter da Silva Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Project UDI? In-Reply-To: <20000110175419.7557B32306@citadel.in.taronga.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Smith has been interested in getting FreeBSD involved in this. My attitude has been "Over my dead body".... (you have to watch out saying things like that- someone might respond with, "Uh, okay....") On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Peter da Silva wrote: > > 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