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From: tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: BSD on VAXstation 2000
Date: 24 Sep 1994 01:24:28 -0400
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC
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References: <35pg6k$j4v@gwen.fwi.uva.nl> <MICHAELV.94Sep21140117@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> <BRLEWIS.94Sep22113911@joy.mit.edu>
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In article <BRLEWIS.94Sep22113911@joy.mit.edu>,
Bruce R. Lewis <brlewis@joy.mit.edu> wrote:
>MIT's Project Athena ran BSD 4.3 on VS2000's for many years.  It's still
>running on vax.dialup.mit.edu and other machines until they keel over.

Yeah, but that's an Athena-internal port using Ultrix source code, and even if
you have an Ultrix (which implies a SVR2 license, which will get you 4.3BSD
source, too) source license, they aren't, as I understand it, allowed to let
you have their MV2000 BSD port.

DECWRL ported 4.3BSD to the MV2000 and 3100, too.  It's a real shame DEC was
too stingy to ever contribute the needed code back to CSRG.
-- 
Thor Lancelot Simon	                                           tls@panix.COM
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