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From: bdb@GTS.Net (Bruce Becker)
Subject: Re: Any continuing work on BSD at Berkley?
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Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 00:01:49 GMT
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In article <5pm6fk$1a3@cynic.portal.ca>,
Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.portal.ca> wrote:
|In article <33BDD2CD.27A51665@inav.net>,
|Martin B. Pomije <mbpomije@inav.net> wrote:
|>I looked on the CSRG's web pages and I didn't see any references to any
|>work that they were still doing on BSD.  Are they doing anything or is
|>it just being done by the *BSD teams?
|
|No, Berkeley abandoned BSD with the 4.4lite2 release.


	Um, more like they recognised than their work was
	done because they made free code available which
	was being turned into fullblooded unix for free.


	Now it's up to us to continue the growth, with many
	thanks for their vision and efforts - so far it looks
	like the torch has been adequately passed along...


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