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Date:      Wed, 8 Nov 1995 13:01:27 +0200 (EET)
From:      Juha Inkari <inkari@snakemail.hut.fi>
To:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ideas from netbsd
Message-ID:  <199511081101.NAA05545@lk-hp-20.hut.fi>
In-Reply-To: <199511080735.SAA22790@werple.net.au> from "John Birrell" at Nov 8, 95 06:38:36 pm

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About the NetBSD compatibility issue, well, what is really needed is a
common BSD ABI for the userland. Otherwise the BSD's are doomed to run
the linux binaries... ;-)

Having cross operating system binary compatibility is the first step
at evaluating the pros and cons of the different
implementations. Agreeing on the details should not hurt anyone.

Now that NetBSD has FreeBSD compatibility, anyone tried booting NetBSD
kernel on top of FreeBSD userland ?

And if that can be made working, wouldn't the opposite situation make
porting FreeBSD to platforms, where NetBSD already can be set up, a
great deal easier project. Then the first thing would actually be
supporting NetBSD binaries (;



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