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Re: Removing ARCNET stuffs
Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 10:22:35 +0000
From: David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost>
Because of these trends, I've been thinking for a while now that maybe
it's getting to be time to fork. That would allow having one project
that intends to stay current, with all the attendant requirements,
which probably mostly doesn't make sense on vintage hardware; and
another project that explicitly abandons most or all of that and
instead concentrates on being the best possible traditional multiuser
or workstation Unix, which does make sense on vintage hardware that
was designed for (or could be adapted to) those roles, and which also
makes sense on newer hardware to the extent it's consistent with the
traditional role.
I suspect if people have the time and energy to make and maintain a
fork, they certainly have the time to write automatic tests for the
old network protocols. If anyone wants to sit down and do that, I
would be happy to help.
If not, there already are `forks' that work: netbsd-5, netbsd-4, &c.
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