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Date:      Mon, 10 Jan 2000 09:57:14 -0800 (PST)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Peter da Silva <peter@taronga.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Project UDI?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10001100956170.89509-100000@semuta.feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000110175419.7557B32306@citadel.in.taronga.com>

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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.
> 



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