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From: srodawa@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Dr. Srodawa)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Anyone running 4.3 BSD on a 386 yet?
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Date: 7 Jul 90 04:40:14 GMT
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In article <856@rossignol.Princeton.EDU> tr@samadams.princeton.edu (Tom Reingold) writes:
>Anyone running 4.3 BSD on a 386 yet?  Any impressions?  Who sells
>it?  How much is it?

We have it inhouse, have had it since just after the initial announcement.
We haven't put it up yet.  The biggest reason was we needed a hardware
upgrade and that was installed just a few weeks ago, as my summer offcampus
began.  A second reason is the initial release can't support software
development..the gcc compiler is used on a machine other than the /386.
The next release should contain the gcc compiler and support for more
ethernet adapters.  I plan on installing it as soon as it becomes
available.  Note..what I have said above is my own thoughts and words and
doesn't necessarily reflect Berkeley's thoughts.  It does accurately
reflect my impressions to date.  Personally, I hold high hopes for
i386BSD, especially in conjunction with the new 4.3BSD-reno code.
It could be the most affordable system around for engineering and
science schools.  (BSD4.3-reno contains, among many other things,
a public domain implementation of NFS and some ISO support.)

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