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- From: dm@cl.cam.ac.uk (Derek McAuley)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: RISC iX origins (was Re: The new Acorn Machine)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.070330.25158@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 07:03:30 GMT
- References: <10942@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk> <20089@acorn.co.uk> <1992Nov13.100412.19915@infodev.cam.ac.uk> <vskq9x@SantaFe.edu>
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- In article <vskq9x@SantaFe.edu>, andy@laguna.santafe.edu (Andy Mell) writes:
- |> In article <1992Nov13.100412.19915@infodev.cam.ac.uk> dm@cl.cam.ac.uk (Derek McAuley) writes:
- |>
- |> >CUCL is signed up for (and paid for!) a beta test release of 4.4 BSD.
- |>
- |> Eh? 'Paid for' ?? - I thought BSD 4.4 was to be free as all AT&T code had been
- |> removed. I also thought it was more or less the same as the 4.3 BSD NET/2
- |> release too, which BSDI and 386 BSD are simply free ports of.
- |>
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- There are two releases; one encumbered with AT&T source code, one (claimed to
- be) without. You pay different amounts for the two (as noted above one includes
- an AT&T license cut); but you pay. At least they've got to cover distribution
- costs.
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- Further details are probably found in some bsd newsgroup.
-
- Mac.
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