Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 23:39:14 -0600 (MDT) From: Wes Peters <softweyr@xmission.com> To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD in the "news" again?!?!? Message-ID: <199709100539.XAA23831@obie.softweyr.ml.org>
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I'm a registered BeOS developer as well as a FreeBSD user, and so was amused to find this snippet in the latest Be Developer News: > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > BE ENGINEERING INSIGHTS: Time Zone Support in the BeOS, or > Stealing Code to Solve a Problem > By Mani Varadarajan > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > [...] > > Luckily, the BeOS is not the first system to face this > problem. As all good engineers eventually learn, one of the > best ways of approaching an old and theoretically > uninteresting problem is to adapt someone else's solution to > one's needs. In this respect, because of its long history of > widespread usage, I found that the Unix world solved the > problem most completely and accurately. And since the world > is also fortunate to have access to the full source code > base of multiple free, Unix-like operating systems, I was > easily able to adapt the code to the BeOS. > > The BeOS implementation of time zone support is based on code > from the FreeBSD system (http://www.freebsd.org). This > implementation has three parts to it: > > [...] Nice of them to admit it, eh? ;^) BeOS is, in my opinion, the operating system where someone FINALLY outdid UNIX, in terms of design, overall cohesion of the system, and being designed pretty much from the ground up as an "object oriented" system. See www.be.com if you're interested. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com
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