Re: Missing compat_43 stuff for netbsd32?

[Brian Buhrow <buhrow%nfbcal.org@localhost>]

	hello.  I think, but am not certain, that old NetBSD-0.8 binaries
might use some of those 4.3 syscalls.  I have a few binaries I'm still
using from  NetBSD-0.9A days which may use those syscalls as well.  I know
that I use COMPAT_43 in all of my kernel configs, and I have this vague
recollection that when I forgot to include that in one build, those
binaries broke.
-thanks
-Brian

On Sep 11,  1:19pm, Mouse wrote:
} Subject: Re: Missing compat_43 stuff for netbsd32?
} > 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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