Re: ANNOUNCE: ComOS 3.1.4 released for PortMaster

Elya Kurktchi (elya@INETWORLD.NET)
Sun, 24 Sep 1995 12:26:48 -0700

In addition to my earlier comment about freebsd and other bsd-based unix
os's, I've had many cheers emailed to me but some in particular raised a
very good point. For one thing, FreeBSD (for example) is available to anyone
and the source code is right there. It shouldn't be too hard for Livingston
to tweek their code to run on, say, FreeBSD unix since if they encounter
*any* problems, all they have to do is look at the unix source code and figure
it out. Granted I'm not a software engineer, but I'm assuming it's much easier
to debug something or port something if you have access to the source code,
which happens to be the case with FreeBSD (or netbsd or whatever).

That in itself is a valid point to at least considering developing for other
platforms (linux too, I forgot), in addition to the many and growing number
of Livingston customers who happen to us PC/Intel based systems running some
UNIX variant.

For those of you who think we live in an all-SPARC world, there are quite a
bit of people who used PC's out here, some shareware UNIX OS, and happen to
be successful ISP's. Remember too, that if we ISP's are successful, we ISP's
have more customers which equals more money which equals greater chances
that we will buy a Livingston product. You scratch our back, our customers
will scratch ours and we'll scratch yours.

Elya.

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