Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 09:21:11 +1100 (EST) From: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Cc: phk@critter.dk.tfs.com, terry@lambert.org, pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co, jb@cimlogic.com.au, srn@flibble.psrg.cs.usyd.edu.au, freebsd-platforms@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Some one working on a SPARC version? Message-ID: <199703162221.JAA02054@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199703162144.OAA06368@phaeton.artisoft.com> from Terry Lambert at "Mar 16, 97 02:44:45 pm"
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Terry Lambert wrote: > > Well, some of us at least... :-) > > He had a smiley with a wink there, later. > > I was questioning the general mentality behind the Aristotilian mean > that says "there must be a 'them' for there to be an 'us'". I get awfully confused about who is/are "them" and who is/are "us". 8-) The time that would be spent porting NetBSD/Sparc or NetBSD/Alpha to FreeBSD would be better spent making *BSD userland code build and run on NetBSD/* _and_ FreeBSD/i386. Let FreeBSD kernel hackers hack FreeBSD/i386 and let FreeBSD userland hackers hack *BSD. Remove the "wall" and agree that there are lots of things that will continue to differ between FreeBSD and NetBSD, but accept the fact that there are a *lot* of things that can remain the same -- build on that. > > I just happen to disagree with the hidden assumptions that led to > his smiley. Me 2. > terry@lambert.org -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@netbsd.org CIMlogic Pty Ltd, 119 Cecil Street, South Melbourne Vic 3205, Australia Tel +61 3 9690 6900 Fax +61 3 9690 6650 Mob +61 418 353 137
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