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From: jcargill@oka.cs.wisc.edu (Jon Cargille)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Bill's talk?  (was Re: Which 386-BSD is reliable?)
Date: 17 Aug 1994 14:13:12 GMT
Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept
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In article <jmonroyCunz65.75G@netcom.com>,
Jesus Monroy Jr <jmonroy@netcom.com> wrote:
>
>	386bsd, the original *bsd, will be available soon.
>	On August the 17th, tommorrow (reference local time), 
>	Bill Jolitz, the original author of 386bsd   and the 
>	person mostly responsible for all *bsd variants based
>	on the NET/2 release from UCB, will speak.   He will
>	discuss new features.  He will discuss the reasons
>	for his long departure.  

That should be interesting to hear...  ;-)

>       He  will make the long
>	awatied release of  386BSD R1.0.

So you're saying he's actually going to *release* it today, Aug 17?

If you've known that all along, why didn't you say so?

>	Please stay tuned for more details later this week.
>

So is anyone else going to Bill's talk?  Is there any chance we can
get a fairly coherent summary of the interesting points?  Note the
*coherent* requirement, Jesus!  ;-)

Jon
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