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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.


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