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From: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: SYS V R4 - When will it be released for Generic 386 boxes?
Message-ID: <611@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM>
Date: 15 Nov 89 23:24:15 GMT
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In article <1989Nov15.223222.11299@world.std.com> madd@world.std.com (jim frost) writes:
>I personally would kill for job-control and the BSD filesystem on a 386.

You can get it now for IBM PS/2 386 machines by buying AIX PS/2.  Strictly
speaking, the filesystem is not BSD, but it has what you need: long
filenames and symbolic links.  Job control is there too.

>Mach would be better, though :-).

Mach's already been ported to the 386 by the folks at CMU.

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Steve Dyer
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