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Date:      Sun, 29 Jul 2001 07:42:11 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Donn Miller <dmmiller@zoominternet.net>
To:        advocacy@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: dmr on Linux and FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <200107291142.f6TBgBY34414@acs-24-154-37-140.zoominternet.net>
In-Reply-To: <20010701130512.A478_sydney.worldwide.lemis.com@ns.sol.net>

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In article <20010701130512.A478_sydney.worldwide.lemis.com@ns.sol.net> you wrote:
> LM:  Have you ever looked at the Linux source code?
> 
> dmr: I haven't looked in a lot of detail.  A year and a half ago or
>     so, we ported Inferno to it, and it was somewhat of a pain.
>     Somebody discovered a driver--I guess--some place in the kernel
>     that had some extremely stupid thing going on.  It was about then
>     that Ken gave some interview, and he remarked that he didn't
>     think very much of the quality of the code.

LM:  Well, if you think that's bad, you should see the Windows 98 source
code.

dmr:  Heh heh!  I'd be willing to bet there's quite a number of "extremely 
stupid" things going on in KERNEL32.DLL, so yes, I suppose it really is all
relative.

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