Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [offtopic] funny BSD people | Date | Sun, 15 Aug 1999 18:50:07 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> Speaking as someone who was around at the time. > > Net-2 was based on BSD's stack. They wanted our math emulator, > we wanted their stack. We traded. But we've since gone to Net-3.
Speaking as the person who wrote the net-2debugged code you are talking complete and utter crap.
Linus gave them the FPU emu code (old version he wrote).
The stack is original, so stop doing down the work of Ross Biro and Don Becker. It was done _from scratch_. At the time it looked like *BSD was going to be killed by the AT&T lawsuit and we already knew the licenses were incompatible.
Matthais Urlich (whose name I always spell wrong so I will apologise in advance) ported the BSD Net/2 stack to Linux as a side thing but it was never part of Linux proper
Alan
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