Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 19:59:27 -3200 (PST) From: cyber@ecst.csuchico.edu To: tv@pobox.com (Todd Vierling) Cc: netbsd-advocacy@NetBSD.ORG, FreeBSD-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, advocacy@openbsd.org Subject: Re: Merging Net/Free/Open-BSD together against Linux Message-ID: <19981201035928.25921.qmail@measles.ecst.csuchico.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.4.05.9811291718280.6874-100000@duhnet.net> from "Todd Vierling" at Nov 29, 98 05:23:36 pm
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Todd Vierling wrote: ] ] On Sun, 29 Nov 1998 cyber@ecst.csuchico.edu wrote: ] ] : 1. Agree on a new API ] ] 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.) ] Yeah, ABI is more accurate. I did say that it was an off the cuff idea and that i didnt even support the idea, I could go of on hundreds of points on why it wont work at this time, despite be a technologically 'neat' idea. (I hadn't even taken a look at 86open.) -=erik. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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