On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 05:11:12PM -0700, Matt Thomas wrote:
> 
> The only significant difference between the user land portions
> of the pmax, cobalt, and hpcmips ports (all little-endian 32bit
> mips) is /usr/mdec.  (this is also true of macppc, ofppc, prep
> ports)
> 
> In any case we need a port-specific place to put the boot
> files.
> 
> /usr/m${MACHINE} is one option as is /usr/mdec/${MACHINE}.

I always suspected it was meant as /usr/m${MACHINE}, where the value
of MACHINE was "dec" on VAXen. 

However, I'd prefer something like the 2nd scheme, but with a more 
meaningful name (/usr/machdep/${MACHINE} ?)

	-is
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