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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Tue,  6 May 2014 09:34:42 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] [GSOC] fast kernel compile
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On Tue May  6 04:39:11 EDT 2014, arnold@skeeve.com wrote:
> > also, quite a bit that is unaccountably still in other kernels ("because
> > Unix did it exactly that way in the 1970s on a PDP-11")
>
> I think that "unaccountably" is a bit harsh. There is A  L O T of old
> Unix software that still just compiles and works out of the box on
> Linux, Solaris, *BSD.  There is a lot of value to that, when what you
> care about is getting your work done (KTBR - Keep The Business Running).

my experience is the opposite.  basic c library functions have been built
into the compiler, and the types have changed.

- erik