Re: Missing compat_43 stuff for netbsd32?

[Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

> I believe COMPAT_43 is not NetBSD 4.3 it's BSD 4.3.

I think so too.  Did NetBSD 4.3 ever exist?  According to
/ftp/pub/NetBSD-archive on ftp.n.o, 4.0 and 4.0.1 were the only 4.x
versions.  (Anonymous FTPing to ftp.n.o, I see /NetBSD-archive, but
it's empty - apparently the archive is in /pub/NetBSD-archive.  I have
no idea why /NetBSD-archive is there.)

> Did the 80386 even exist when Berkeley published BSD 4.3?

According to Wikipedia, the 80386 was introduced in 1985 and 4.3
was released in June 1986, so, yes, it did.  But between .5 and 1.5
years is not really long enough for it to be plausible that 4.3 ran on
the '386.  I don't _think_ BSD ran on the '386 until the Jolitzes, but
I wasn't close to that effort, so I don't really know.

> It's probably only useful for running ancient SunOS 4.x binaries,
> maybe Ultrix, Irix or OSF-1 depending on how closely they followed
> BSD 4.3.

That's pretty much my own perspective on COMPAT_43.  Probably should
have been called COMPAT_BSD43 or some such....

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