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- From: root@rwsys.wimsey.bc.ca (Superuser)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent,comp.os.linux
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- Subject: Re: Linux v. Coherent: Comments
- References: <1993Jan7.165301.2889@news.stolaf.edu>
- Message-ID: <93010717182@rwsys.wimsey.bc.ca>
- Organization: RWSYS Exporter BBS system
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 21:48:11 PST
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- johnsonm@lars.acc-admin.stolaf.edu (Michael K. Johnson) writes:
- >
- > In article <1ihc1iINNh6q@uwm.edu> rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller, Linux Device Registrar) writes:
- >
- > Y'know, I've been thinking about this... Folks are saying that the next
- > release of Coherent will have *loads* of stuff it doesn't have yet:
- >
- I doubt that it is practical or necesary for mwc to swipe linux
- code. The networking and sockets code, for the most part, will
- be so intimate with the kernel, that it would not be practical
- to use linux or bsd code. The rest of this material is publically
- available and a matter of porting.
-
- > 1.) Graphics support
- ^^^ probably X
-
- > 2.) The GNU GCC compiler
- ^^^^ porting it like everybody else
-
- > 3.) TCP/IP Networking
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ there is little choice except to
- write this. I really don't think the Linux tcp-ip
- is mature enough yet to steal :)
-
- > 4.) Sockets
- ^^^^^^^^ this too is so platform specific, it will
- need to be written.
-
- > 5.) X Windows
- ^^^^^they can get X anywhere and port it.
-
- Never-the-less, I'm not mwc and though I haven't used any linux code,
- I do eye-ball it very closely for ideas and algorithms.
-
- Randy
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