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From: brianm@cbme.unsw.EDU.AU (Brian Murray)
Subject: Re: Vax 11/750 and BSD (and AT&T)
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I have just downloaded the ftp-able version of BSD-Net/2. I understand
that parts of it that contained AT&T code have been removed, namely
some of the low-level driver and machine specific stuff for VAXen
(and possibly other stuff I don't know about). Does anyone know
exactly what parts are missing? And short of getting an AT&T licence,
is there any alternate way of getting these files i.e. has someone
written AT&T free versions of them? I have technical details of the
VAX 11 innards (re. DEC VAX Hardware Handbook) and would be willing
to write some code if the exact nature of the missing components
was known. 

Indeed, does there exist a completely AT&T free 4.3BSD (or any Unix 
for that matter) that runs on the VAX?

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