Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!decwrl!apple!mips!servitude!rogerk
From: rogerk@mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Re: diff 8-bit behaviour
Message-ID: <41358@mips.mips.COM>
Date: 7 Sep 90 17:30:53 GMT
References: <1186@cluster.cs.su.oz>
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In article <1186@cluster.cs.su.oz> bruce@cs.su.oz (Bruce Janson) writes:
>My vote goes with the "faithful emulation" school of thought: if they
>want to fix bugs in 4.3BSD then I ask that they put the improved
>environment under /bsd43_with_mips_enhancements rather than /bsd43.

Taking off my Mips Employee hat for a second and donning my RISC/os User
chapeau, I would expect that the baseline would be feature compatibility, and
any new functionality would be supplied with Mips-specific options.
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