I'm catching up on old news, but I see this thread has continued to modern
day:

While really really bored, Ken Hornstein wrote:
> Sounds great, Peter.  When you get a new version of init working, please
> post the diffs :-)
> Isn't all this talking really moot until somebody sits down and does the
> work?

I have a version of init I used on 386BSD-0.1, called chmr-init.
I have no idea how well it would interface with NetBSD-1.0+, but I just
thought someone might want this datapoint.  It supports run-levels, AFAIR.

I find the flexibility of run levels intruiging (and for what it's worth,
it always seemed like it was missing from BSD), but I admit I rarely used
any but single and multi/full/kitchen-sink.
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