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From: dhesi@rahul.net (Rahul Dhesi)
Subject: Re: How was BSD written?
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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 1994 01:03:24 GMT
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In <1994Feb9.055849.9351@nuchat.sccsi.com> steve@sccsi.com (Steve
Nuchia) writes:

>I always wondered how sysVr4 was written.  Did the AT+T programmers
>implement virtual memory and TCP/IP from published specifications,
>or did they have access to BSD code?

Maybe they used the following script?

     #! /bin/sh
     # BSD to SVR4 translator -- alpha version, may still have bugs
     grep -i -v 'copyright'
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Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@rahul.net>
also:  dhesi@cirrus.com