Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!super!udel!princeton!njin!rutgers!mailrus!ames!elroy!orbity!greg From: greg@orbity.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Greg Cooper) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: System V Release 4.0 Developer Conferences Message-ID: <9733@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> Date: 27 Sep 88 14:36:01 GMT References: <167@hsi86.hsi.UUCP> <1988Sep22.173745.14647@utzoo.uucp> <8570@smoke.ARPA> <1988Sep26.213223.407@utzoo.uucp> Sender: uucp@super.ORG Reply-To: greg@orbity.UUCP (Greg Cooper) Organization: Image Analysis Systems Grp, JPL Lines: 12 In article <1988Sep26.213223.407@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes: quoting a friend of his... > >ABI implies that a conforming machine must have kernel support for both >NeWS *and* X. This is ridiculous for people who plan to run neither. > The versions of NeWS and X that I use run in user mode with no support provided by the kernel other than what they provide to all other programs. Is this going to change? I hope not! Greg Cooper greg@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov