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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA7260 ; Mon, 18 Jan 93 10:50:49 EST Xref: sserve comp.unix.wizards:28274 comp.org.eff.talk:11766 comp.org.usenix:3140 comp.unix.bsd:10191 Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.org.eff.talk,comp.org.usenix,comp.unix.bsd,alt.suit.att-bsdi Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!haven.umd.edu!decuac!pa.dec.com!decprl!decprl!boyd From: boyd@prl.dec.com (Boyd Roberts) Subject: Re: BSDI/USL Lawsuit -- More Bad News for Human Beings... Message-ID: <1993Jan19.232324.22918@prl.dec.com> Sender: news@prl.dec.com (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: spooky.prl.dec.com Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation - Paris Research Laboratory References: <BETSYS.93Jan15143516@ra.cs.umb.edu> <1993Jan17.203539.6063@s4mjs.uucp> <v0r38cs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com> <1jerr9INNpc8@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1993 23:23:24 GMT Lines: 23 In article <1jerr9INNpc8@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, chet@odin.ins.cwru.edu (Chet Ramey) writes: > > Your chronology is a little bit off. The 8th edition used > 4.1 BSD as it's code base. 4.1 BSD was released in 1981. As per usual Chet is right on the money: 14 char dir components, a first cut at BSD paging; a paging V7 in effect with a lot of really cool stuff written at Bell Labs to turn it into something fine, which is still not avaialable in the commercial world. Fortunately pjw had found all the paging badness before I coded up the V7 style 512byte file-system for the Sydney V8 (a cool plan devised by John Mackin so we could upgrade seemlessly). > You're certainly right that the inventors of streams were > less than enthused about STREAMS. STREAMS were called ``sewers''. Boyd Roberts boyd@prl.dec.com ``When the going gets wierd, the weird turn pro...''