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  3. From: pcg@aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi)
  4. Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,alt.suit.att-bsdi
  5. Subject: Re: ENOUGH! Re: BSDI/USL Lawsuit -- More Bad News for Human Beings...
  6. Message-ID: <PCG.93Jan27203313@csthor.aber.ac.uk>
  7. Date: 27 Jan 93 20:33:13 GMT
  8. References: <C0yK27.9Ly@csn.org> <1ja6bgINNh23@chnews.intel.com>
  9.     <MIKE.93Jan22144301@cuba.vlsivie.tuwien.ac.at>
  10.     <1993Jan23.212839.7548@prl.dec.com>
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  12. Organization: University College of Wales, Aberystwyth
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  14. In-Reply-To: boyd@prl.dec.com's message of 23 Jan 93 21: 28:39 GMT
  15. Nntp-Posting-Host: thor.dcs.aber.ac.uk
  16.  
  17.  
  18. In article <MIKE.93Jan22144301@cuba.vlsivie.tuwien.ac.at>,
  19. mike@vlsivie.tuwien.ac.at (Michael Gschwind) writes:
  20.  
  21.     [ ... A list of BSD contributions ... ]
  22.  
  23. On 23 Jan 93 21:28:39 GMT, boyd@prl.dec.com (Boyd Roberts) said:
  24.  
  25.     [ ... a list of equivalent BTL modules ... ]
  26.  
  27. Summarizing:
  28.  
  29.     BSD                BTL
  30.  
  31.     paging                paging
  32.     FFS                BITFS
  33.     jobcontrol            xt
  34.     csh                rc
  35.     sockets                streams
  36.     vi                sam
  37.     curses                [unnecessary: blit]
  38.     termcap                [unnecessary: blit]
  39.     sendmail            upas
  40.     dbx                pi
  41.  
  42. There are two interesting aspects to all this:
  43.  
  44. * The BSD material has been almost completely copied into the USL product,
  45.   and (perhaps regrettably) virtually none of the BTL stuff has.
  46.  
  47. * The BSD technology on average was developed a few years before the
  48.   equivalent BTL.
  49.