Re: Merging Net/Free/Open-BSD together against Linux

[Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>]

On Sun, 29 Nov 1998 cyber@ecst.csuchico.edu wrote:

: 1. Agree on a new API
: 	Adjust toolchains/kernel/libs to support this API
: 	This API would exist as a binary emulation where appropriatee.
: 	The same API would then exist across all platforms and
: 	binaries written on one would work on all.

You sound like you're proposing an ABI, not an API.  In general, all three
BSDs have the same API, which is Net/2 and 4.4BSD based.

So, `sounds like 86open.'  Yeah, that went over well.  (Their site,
www.telly.org/86open/, has not been updated since November 1997.)

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