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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!ibmpcug!gtoal
- From: gtoal@ibmpcug.co.uk (Graham Toal)
- Subject: Re: RISC iX origins (was Re: The new Acorn Machine)
- Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK.
- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 01:47:07 GMT
- Message-ID: <By76AK.L8G@ibmpcug.co.uk>
- References: <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:
- >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.
-
- It's supposed to have neat hooks in the filesystem for adding extensions;
- and I've used its Mach-style vm-mapped files interface which makes a real
- difference to certain types of jobs.
-
- G
- By the way, whoever paid for their tape... want a bet you don't see it
- for a *long* time? I've heard they're sitting on them until the ATT mess
- is cleared up, but not officially - they'll just take forever in the post...
-
- PS For some reason BSDI have already got bits of 4.4 that haven't been
- given to jolitz. Strange, eh? (No, not really)
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