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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!uhog.mit.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!nitride.EECS.Berkeley.EDU!jwshin From: jwshin@nitride.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (Jinwoo Shin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: 4.4-lite? Date: 6 Jul 94 19:01:45 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 18 Message-ID: <jwshin.773521305@nitride.EECS.Berkeley.EDU> References: <VIXIE.94Jun20091941@office.home.vix.com> <jwshin.773477829@nitride.EECS.Berkeley.EDU> <2vdonjINNs4q@rrzs3.uni-regensburg.de> <jwshin.773491683@nitride.eecs.berkeley.edu> <CsJ08E.4LG@newsserver.aggregate.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: nitride.eecs.berkeley.edu rhealey@sirius.aggregate.com (Rob Healey) writes: > If you want to a fully functional 4.4 BSD system then NetBSD or FreeBSD > is what you want, depending on if you are x86 based, FreeBSD, or > other architecture based, NetBSD. NetBSD currently has running ports > for Sun 4c, Sun 3, Amiga, Mac, x86, pmax, ns32k and a vax port is > rumored to be in the works as well. I'm running 486 right now. The reason for my interest in BSD is because I wanted to have the real source code and a running system to play around with while I'm reading "Design and Implementation of 4.3bsd". Although there are other kernels that I could probably study, I thought that BSDs were the better documented architecture among them. Am I wrong? Thanks. -- Jinwoo Shin jwshin@eecs.berkeley.edu System Administrator Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center