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From: andrew@frip.WV.TEK.COM (Andrew Klossner)
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Subject: Re: Shrink-wrap UNIX for 88open architecture.
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Date: 25 Apr 91 18:18:26 GMT
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	"I think that it would be well within the relm of possibility
	to issolate the machine dependent parts of the kernel in to a
	well defined module which would then be vendor specific."

We tried to do this.  Spent great gobs of money, ended up with failure
-- the task turned out to be much bigger than initially estimated.  We
fell back to a normal port of Motorola's system to our hardware.

A major problem is that releases of standard Unix come out so fast that
you couldn't keep up with them with this scheme, unless you had a lot
of resources to spend on the problem.  And the payback isn't enough to
spend those resources.

  -=- Andrew Klossner   (uunet!tektronix!frip.WV.TEK!andrew)    [UUCP]
                        (andrew%frip.wv.tek.com@relay.cs.net)   [ARPA]