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perryh@pluto.rain.com writes:

>  Might it not be both more historically accurate, and a great deal
>  easier, to just use the version of FreeBSD that corresponds to
>  the historical era being re-created?

	And skip feature, performance, and security improvements made
since?



				Robert Huff