Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 10:34:51 -0600 (CST) From: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com> To: Jeff.Bond@nectech.co.uk (Bond, Jeffery) Cc: dustpika@hotmail.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD AGP compatible??? Message-ID: <199803111634.KAA14775@horton.iaces.com> In-Reply-To: <014CB6ADC0BCD0118B1B006097827D5B3D33A2@exchange.nectech.co.uk> from "Bond, Jeffery" at "Mar 11, 98 03:49:43 pm"
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In a previous message, Bond, Jeffery said: > In general, any unix app supplied as source code should be able > to compile and run on ANY unix OS, commercial or non-commercial. Wouldn't that be nice if it were true. Over the years there have been many tries to unify Unix. SysVR4 begate OSF/1 (out of fear that Sun would get too much power by the other big guys HP, IBM and DEC). Posix, Spec 1170, etc. All have failed. Porting between Unicies is a big thing, not as big as Windows to Mac to Unix or any direction. But still it's non-trivial. If your statment was true, then Netscape, Oracle, Sybase, and all other commercial developers would simultaniously release they're products on all platforms at once. -- Friends come and go, enemies accumulate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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