From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 19 19:26:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA11614 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 19:26:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [204.188.121.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA11606 for ; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 19:25:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA09613; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 19:20:16 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199702200320.TAA09613@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.9 8/22/96 To: Terry Lambert cc: jamie@inna.net (Jamie Bowden), toneil@visigenic.com, jfieber@indiana.edu, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Windows95: what you don't know, you must reinvent In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 19 Feb 1997 11:00:23 MST." <199702191800.LAA13334@phaeton.artisoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 19:20:15 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >From The Desk Of Terry Lambert : > For what it's worth, *NOW* is the time for BSD to look at fully > supporting the Win32 API. Linux too, for that matter. I got to agree with Terry on this one and anything that we can do to import drivers or sub-systems is well critical. I am thinking about Directxxx stuff which stands to make win95 / winnt a very nice platform. Cheers, Amancio