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From: julian@mailhub.tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1 <-> 4.4BSD Lite?
Date: 14 Nov 1995 23:47:50 GMT
Organization: TRW Financial Systems, Oakland, CA
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References: <482dv7$nj@kocrsv08.delcoelect.com> <30A580C9.167EB0E7@FreeBSD.org> <oCBgmmg0sxwB073yn@sscp.lkg.dec.com>
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In article <oCBgmmg0sxwB073yn@sscp.lkg.dec.com>,
Michael C. Cambria <cambria@smaug.enet.dec.com> wrote:

>As FreeBSD continues to move (ie. Posix support for realtime 1003.b,
>kernel(?) pthreads 1003.c), will the 4.4BSD-Lite sources even be close
>as time goes on?

4.4BSD-Lite2 is a snapshot of a system..

it was the LAST snapshot of that series.
The major development in BSD is now occuring in {Net,Free}BSD
so you could say that We are it's successors..

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