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* AW: [pups] History of 2 BSD
@ 2003-11-11  8:15 Michael Sokolov
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From: Michael Sokolov @ 2003-11-11  8:15 UTC (permalink / raw)


Mario Premke <premke at ess-wowi.de> wrote:

> Wouldn't that mean to port a 32bit OS (4BSD) back to 16bit (2.xBSD)?

Yes.  I've never been a fan of 2.xBSD personally.

MS


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* AW: [pups] History of 2 BSD
  2003-11-10 16:26 Michael Sokolov
@ 2003-11-11  7:38 ` Mario Premke
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From: Mario Premke @ 2003-11-11  7:38 UTC (permalink / raw)



> Don't confuse 2BSD with 2.xBSD, though.  The latter came much 
> much later (after
> 4BSD) and was a backport of some 4BSD features to PDP-11.  That 

Wouldn't that mean to port a 32bit OS (4BSD) back to 16bit (2.xBSD)?
(I wonder as it seems a bit of work to me ... )

Mario


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