Return to BSD News archive
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!decwrl!pa.dec.com!vixie From: vixie@pa.dec.com (Paul A Vixie) Subject: Re: 4.3BSD for VAX? In-Reply-To: dehning@tnt.uni-hannover.de's message of 8 Sep 92 11:14:06 GMT Message-ID: <VIXIE.92Sep8103410@cognition.pa.dec.com> Sender: news@PA.dec.com (News) Organization: DEC Network Software Lab References: <1992Sep8.111406.28499@newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de> Date: 8 Sep 92 10:34:10 Lines: 16 > Does a public domain version of 4.3 BSD for VAXen exist? And if there is > such a version, where can I get it from? The VAX device drivers and other low-level modules are ridden through and through with old V32 (Bell Labs) code. Much of the newer stuff was donated by Armando et al from DEC, or written by various kind and desperate hackers such as Chris Torek while he was at UMD. However, it is likely that even if a 4.4 port appears (which appears less and less likely as other deadlines loom ponderously on the horizon), it will not be part of 4.4-lite or other- wise freely redistributable. There's just too much original Bell Labs code in that part of the system; that's why it wasn't on Net-2. -- Paul Vixie, DEC Network Systems Lab Palo Alto, California, USA "Don't be a rebel, or a conformist; <vixie@pa.dec.com> decwrl!vixie they're the same thing, anyway. Find <paul@vix.com> vixie!paul your own path, and stay on it." -me