On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Greg A. Woods wrote:

: BTW, who exactly made such a questionable decision without asking for
: input from the users (I'm certain I wouldn't have missed such a
: discussion, though I admit I've not scanned the mailing list archives to
: see if the question was cleverly hidden from all us Unix radicals).

It's called `backwards compatibility', dear.  It's one of NetBSD's primary
goals.

Now go away.

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