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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!yarra!melba.bby.oz.au!gnb From: gnb@duke.bby.oz.au (Gregory N. Bond) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Funding 4.4BSD Development Message-ID: <1992Jul3.045323.22910@melba.bby.oz.au> Date: 3 Jul 92 04:53:23 GMT References: <1992Jun28.204256.14620@uunet.uu.net> <1992Jun29.053223.3337@kithrup.COM> <1992Jun29.151739.2005@utstat.uucp> <1992Jul1.192624.23835@gateway.novell.com> Sender: usenet@melba.bby.oz.au (news READER id) Organization: Burdett, Buckeridge & Young, Melbourne, Australia Lines: 18 In-Reply-To: terry@npd.Novell.COM's message of 1 Jul 92 19:26:24 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: duke >>>>> On 1 Jul 92 19:26:24 GMT, terry@npd.Novell.COM (Terry Lambert) said: Terry> If my recollection serves me correctly, Gould ported Ultrix to their boxes, Terry> not BSD. This can be seen in some of their documentation, which to this Terry> day says "Ultrix" in places. The first Gould unix box I worked on was in 1984; this was (from memory) before Ultrix was released. And it could look nothing like Ultrix internally; the Goulds had an IBM-360-ish architecture and the VM system was a real crock. Ah the good old days.. when something 50% faster than a 780 was Big News... Greg. -- Gregory Bond <gnb@bby.oz.au> Burdett Buckeridge & Young Ltd Melbourne Australia "Take my archetypes - please!" - Henny Jungman (geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM)