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From: hpeyerl@sidney (Herb Peyerl)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Stable *BSD for Intel
Date: 6 Mar 1994 15:18:53 GMT
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Amancio Hasty Jr (hasty@netcom.com) wrote:
: Perhaps the above is due to cabling problems with the AHA-1542C;nevertheless,
: I suggest that one of the NetBSD-0.9 advocates take a snapshot of a stable 
: netbsd-current and release it. Given that the release date of
: NetBSD-1.0 is unknown.

Ummm... This has been happening for a while now:

sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu:pub/NetBSD/arch/i386

[sun-lamp i386 72 ]> ls
CKSUMS                  netbsd-ahbbt*           usr.libexec.tar.gz
README                  sbin.tar.gz             usr.misc.tar.gz
bin.tar.gz              usr.bin.tar.gz          usr.sbin.tar.gz
dev.tar.gz              usr.games.tar.gz        usr.share.tar.gz
etc.tar.gz              usr.include.tar.gz      var.tar.gz
netbsd-aha*             usr.lib.tar.gz

Here's an excerpt from the README:

This is a binary snapshot, created from the NetBSD-current sources
as of evening, 3/4/94.  They should be used in the same was as all
-current sources: VERY CAREFULLY, and only by those who know what
they're doing.

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