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From: cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: 4.4BSD
Date: 11 Jan 94 20:47:34
Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us
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Message-ID: <CGD.94Jan11204734@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
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In-reply-to: douzzer@PIRANHA.LCS.MIT.EDU's message of 12 Jan 1994 04:09:16 GMT

In article <2gvt5c$dr0@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> douzzer@PIRANHA.LCS.MIT.EDU (Daniel G. Pouzzner) writes:
>i think, and someone correct me if i'm wrong, but
>4.3network2 is almost identical to 4.4bsd. maybe we can consider it a
>de facto 4.4bsd-lite?

"Not even close" in a lot of ways...

*lots* of FS changes, including additions/reorganizations/improvements.
LFS is added, NFS is improved to become NQNFS, and a whole lot
of other stuff, both in the kernel and in user-land have changed.



chris
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chris g. demetriou                                   cgd@cs.berkeley.edu

                    smarter than your average clam.