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From: jfw@ksr.com (John F. Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: I wonder, did AT&T backstab BSDI?
Keywords: AT&T speculation lawsuit BSDI
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Date: 31 Jul 92 17:19:42 EDT
References: <1992Jul28.153750.8395@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <1992Jul29.144859.8222@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk> <1992Jul29.182141.10399@prism.poly.edu>
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kapela@prism.poly.edu (Theodore S. Kapela) writes:
>>The only problem with this idea is that SYSVr4 (NOT System 5, that was
>>another Unix way back) doesn't look like BSD, it still looks like SYSV to
>SVR4 is System V, Release 4.  System 7 was an early version of Unix
>way back (in the pre-dawn era :-) )

Actually, some would claim that Version 7 (not System 7) was the *last*
version of UNIX...  :-)