On Thu, 15 May 1997, G. Evans wrote:

.. Ummm, nope. I am happily running NetBSD 1.2.1 with X (Black and White) on
.. my Quadra 610 at home, with full PPP conectivity, etc. (however since the
.. kernel and (Yes, excuse me for being dumb and not *quite* getting it) the
.. libraries(?) are different 'ps' and 'w' do not work.
.. 
.. When I first installed NetBSD on my Q610 I had many problems that ended up
.. being the result of a corrupted download of NetBSD, then after that, I
.. found out that if I was to use the madhatter kernels it *should* work.  So
.. I downloaded madhatter#36 (or was it 35??)  anyway, it worked!  Now I am
.. using madhatter#37 and all is well (except of course 'ps' and 'w').

In my terminology: A system running 1.2.1 is a system winning the 1.2.1
distribution and a kernel distributed as part of 1.2.1 or a custom kernel
built from 1.2.1 sources.

In your case you seem to have a 1.2.1 system upgraded with a newer kernel
built from the current development sources on a given source (cf. Bill's
description of what -current is). Consequently your system is a mixture
of 1.2.1 and a newer -current kernel. 

This is not a problem -- it mostly works as you note, but it is not a
pure 1.2.1 system.

Best regards (and no more nit-picking today) :-)
Erik Bertelsen