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Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 16:22:37 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: Wei Weng <wweng@stevens-tech.edu>
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Subject: Re: freebsd and BSD
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On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Wei Weng wrote:

> What is a typical BSD machine? 

In terms of FreeBSD, it's a 486 or Pentium-class machine with 16mb or more
of RAM and lots of disk space.

> Can I run commericail BSD machine applications on my freeBSD?

Depends on what is meant by ``BSD''.  BSDi BSD/OS should work OK, as
should NetBSD and OpenBSD.   SunOS programs (which used to be based on
BSD) will need to be ported.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major