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Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 17:23:36 -0500 (EST)
From: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
To: cyber@ecst.csuchico.edu
cc: adrian@ubergeeks.com, grog@lemis.com, netbsd-advocacy@NetBSD.ORG,
        FreeBSD-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, advocacy@openbsd.org
Subject: Re: Merging Net/Free/Open-BSD together against Linux
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On Sun, 29 Nov 1998 cyber@ecst.csuchico.edu wrote:

: 1. Agree on a new API
: 	Adjust toolchains/kernel/libs to support this API
: 	This API would exist as a binary emulation where appropriatee.
: 	The same API would then exist across all platforms and
: 	binaries written on one would work on all.

You sound like you're proposing an ABI, not an API.  In general, all three
BSDs have the same API, which is Net/2 and 4.4BSD based.

So, `sounds like 86open.'  Yeah, that went over well.  (Their site,
www.telly.org/86open/, has not been updated since November 1997.)

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