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From: wollman@ginger.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: 4.4-lite?
Date: 20 Jul 1994 18:51:07 GMT
Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
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References: <Bs2yi5F.dysonj@delphi.com> <michaelv.774429899@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> <30d91q$cs6@quagga.ru.ac.za> <SJA.94Jul20164741@gamma.hut.fi>
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In article <SJA.94Jul20164741@gamma.hut.fi>,
Sakari Jalovaara <sja@snakemail.hut.fi> wrote:

>Start with a file containing the "hello world" program.
>Delete that program and insert the 4.4-Lite kernel code.
>I'd call that 4.4-based.  Not "modified hello world".

Hmmm...

Start with a file containing the UNIX/32V buffer-cache management
routines.  Delete all the code, and then hand it to someone else.  Let
that person then re-write for himself all the routines that were
deleted.

Sound familiar?

We Don't Want To Get Sued.

-GAWollman

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