Re: Unified BSD?

2012-11-16 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2012-11-16 12:48, Tomas Bodzar wrote: On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Hub- FreeBSD wrote: Actually, according to what we are tracking at http://bsdstats.org, there are currently *8*: PC-BSD FreeBSD PYC-BSD (aka Rus-BSD) DesktopBSD OpenBSD NetBSD DragonflyBSD MidnightBSD Tracking somet

Re: Unified BSD?

2012-11-13 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2012-11-13 18:51, Julian H. Stacey wrote: Hi, Reference: From: Johnny Billquist Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 13:34:56 +0100 Message-id: <50a23e70.8010...@update.uu.se> Johnny Billquist wrote: On 2012-11-13 11:45, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote: On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at

Re: Unified BSD?

2012-11-13 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2012-11-13 11:45, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote: On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 10:08:08AM +0100, Joost van de Griek wrote: On 12 Nov 2012, at 21:37 , Robin Björklin wrote: Am I bat crap crazy for thinking it could be good to merge the four largest BSD variants out there, take the best bits and piec

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-31 Thread Johnny Billquist
Andy Ruhl wrote: On 8/31/06, Thorsten Glaser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: BSD is about an operating system, not about a kernel. Bingo. Good point. This point is lost sometimes. I believe NetBSD has the proper philosophy in regards to the entire OS as well. I don't want apache built in, for ins

Re: wikipedia article

2006-06-13 Thread Johnny Billquist
Per Fogelstrvm wrote: On Tuesday 13 June 2006 14:23, Rick Kelly wrote: Johnny Billquist said: There's actually a cheesy way to do demand paging with microprocessors that don't support demand paging (such as the original 68000--another "16 bit" machine). The way to d

Re: wikipedia article

2006-06-13 Thread Johnny Billquist
memory on a PDP-11 is furthermore 4 meg, so having a lot of processes full memory space in physical memory at the same time is not a problem. The PDP-11 MMU is a beatiful MMU. Nothing like the crap Intel spits out. ;-) Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm o

Re: wikipedia article

2006-06-13 Thread Johnny Billquist
tion. If the first one does a bad memory fetch, then the second one will not have fetched the instruction causing the fault so contains restartable machine state. Masscomp sold a machine like this once. Didn't the first Apollos do this? Johnny -- Johnny Billquist

Re: wikipedia article

2006-06-13 Thread Johnny Billquist
t all the details at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_core. -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin&#x