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

[cyber@ecst.csuchico.edu]

Todd Vierling wrote:
] 
] On Sun, 29 Nov 1998 cyber@ecst.csuchico.edu wrote:
] 
] : 1. Agree on a new API
] 
] 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.)
] 

Yeah, ABI is more accurate.

I did say that it was an off the cuff idea and that i didnt even
support the idea, I could go of on hundreds of points on why it 
wont work at this time, despite be a technologically 'neat' idea.
(I hadn't even taken a look at 86open.)

-=erik.