From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: cowan@ccil.org (cowan@ccil.org) Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 14:55:57 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] A repository with 44 years of Unix evolution gets the MSR '15 Best Data Showcase Award In-Reply-To: References: <555A4699.5060107@aueb.gr> Message-ID: <5b6c7ed2577c8761e41923c5774bdd93.squirrel@www.ccil.org> Clem Cole scripsit: > NetBSD wanted to take the CRSG token make a solid system for research that > ran everywhere - i.e. lots of different target HW - 68K many different > vendors, Vax, Power, sparc, much less x86. In fact, they would take back > from FreeBSD a lot of the 386 work eventually. The Hannum interview says that portability wasn't the focus in the *very* beginning, and that getting NetBSD running on different architectures was because they had a lot of different architectures around. So it was making a virtue of what started out as necessity. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan at ccil.org Do what you will / this Life's a Fiction And is made up of / Contradiction. --William Blake