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Re: Regarding the ULTRIX and OSF1 compats



On 2019-03-16 09:45, Maxime Villard wrote:
Le 16/03/2019 à 06:23, John Nemeth a écrit :
On Mar 15, 10:31pm, Michael Kronsteiner wrote:
}
} i have this discussion today aswell... considering 64/32bit machines.
} if you want ultrix, install ultrix. if you want osf1/dec unix/tru64
} install that. being able to run ummm.... nearly 20 year old binaries...
} well. if thats what you want be prepared for a ride. i never ran
} "foreign" binaries on a BSD. and i often compile myself even on more
} "user friendly" systems.

      By any chance, have you seen our About page:
http://www.netbsd.org/about/ ?  The second paragraph reads thus:

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One of the primary focuses of the NetBSD project has been to make
the base OS highly portable. This has resulted in NetBSD being
ported to a large number of hardware platforms. NetBSD is also
interoperable, implementing many standard APIs and network protocols,
and emulating many other systems' ABIs.
-----

Emulating other systems is fundamental to what NetBSD is about.

This is a really simplistic answer. It is not difficult to see that our
website does not reflect reality at all.

So, what is the reality then, in your opinion?

  Johnny

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