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From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net>
To: Steve Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net>
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Subject: Re: 4.0?
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On Sat, 10 Jul 1999, Steve Hovey wrote:

> 
> out of curiousity, whats new about 4 that caused the jump in numbering
> from 3.X?

4.0 is the -current branch, it's an experimental branch that is more
aggressive about changes, here's just a few big differences:

1) egcs is the system compiler
2) major rewrites of the VM, NFS and VFS code
3) new device API
4) not nearly as well tested as -stable.
5) running -current sort of puts you on your own if you come across a bug.

-Alfred



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