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From: madd@world.std.com (jim frost)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: SYS V R4 - When will it be released for Generic 386 boxes?
Message-ID: <1989Nov15.223222.11299@world.std.com>
Date: 15 Nov 89 22:32:22 GMT
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References: <89Nov2.084419est.18471@me.utoronto.ca> <1337@uvaarpa.virginia.edu> <824@hsi86.hsi.UUCP> <1625@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
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davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) writes:
>In article <824@hsi86.hsi.UUCP>, stevens@hsi.UUCP (Richard Stevens) writes:
>|  Anyone know who will ship the first binary release of SVR4
>|  for any type of hardware ?

>Bear in mind there's no huge demand in the 386 market.

That depends on who you ask.  I personally would kill for job-control
and the BSD filesystem on a 386.  Considering the number of times I've
seen similar requests on comp.unix.questions et al, I'd say there's a
lot of demand.

Mach would be better, though :-).

jim frost
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