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From: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
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Subject: Re: is KERNEL developement finished, yet ???
To: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 19:08:57 +0000 (GMT)
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> > I don't know of any mistakes per say, but if I had to do it over again,
> > there's about a thousands things I'd do differently (preference in design
> > choices, not mistakes) especially not to cling so religiously to POSIX
> > compliance.
> 
> And then you'd have no applications.

You can always design a new operating system, but include POSIX
compliance, to make porting applications easier.  Atheos,
(http://atheos.cx), does just this - that's why you can easily run
Apache, EMACS, etc, etc, on it - but it's not really a *nix based OS.

John.
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