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From: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
To: "Ian F. Darwin" <ian@DarwinSys.COM>
cc: advocacy@openbsd.org, nclayton@lehman.com, netbsd-advocacy@NetBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: *BSD myths
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On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, Ian F. Darwin wrote:

: 2) Most of the freeware that Linux users take for granted originally
: was developed on a BSD-based system. BSD users can generally compile
: this software using either GNU configure, or the "ports tree".

Of course, this is `pkgsrc tree' for NetBSD.

: 3) Although it was not distributed in source form like the current
: BSD's, SunOS4 is a BSD-based system, a rather successful one,
: and there is plenty of software for that! If you're running OpenBSD (or
: NetBSD??) on a SPARCstation, you can run most of the SunOS4 software in
: emulation mode.
: 4) If you're on a PC, you can run most Linux software in Linux emulation 
: mode. For example, one of the contributors to this page routinely 
: runs "ApplixWare for Linux" on his OpenBSD 2.4 P133 system.

You missed that BSD/OS (aka BSD/I), which is a commercial BSD-based OS on
i386 - worthy of inclusion on the list for completeness - can be emulated
under all three BSD's.  For NetBSD, emulation is almost perfect for BSD/OS
1.x, and `OK' for 2.x.

-- 
-- Todd Vierling (Personal tv@pobox.com; Bus. todd_vierling@xn.xerox.com)