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From: dschieb@muse.cv.nrao.edu (Darrell Schiebel)
Subject: Re: 4.4 BSD-Lite
In-Reply-To: csgr@cs.ru.ac.za's message of Mon, 16 May 1994 06:39:48 GMT
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In article <CpvuIE.D26@hippo.ru.ac.za> csgr@cs.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet) writes:
> In <45oDmc1w165w@ghs.uucp> cclarke%ghs.uucp@usc.edu (Chris Clarke) writes:
>
> >Date: 5-14-94
>
> >     I read recently that the University of California has settled the
> >lawsuit with Novell/USL and that they are now going to release 4.4 BSD-Lite.
> >Does anybody know when it is going to be released?
> >And, what is the address/directory of the source archive site going to be?
>
>  4.4Lite has been released, and UCB is now processing orders for the
>  4.4Lite tape.  You can either order one from UCB (at $1000 a throw),
>  or wait until the code starts to appear on ftp sites.  (The code should
>  be out, freely available, within a short period of time.)

	Yesterday, I saw where O'Reilly is selling the BSD4.4 manual
	set along with the 4.4lite CD-ROM for $150. It seemed like a 
	pretty good deal to me.

							Darrell Schiebel