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From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: 386BSD
Message-ID: <1991Jan02.063830.21372@kithrup.COM>
Date: 2 Jan 91 06:38:30 GMT
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In article <1990Dec31.115556.20933@virtech.uucp> cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
>4.4BSD will support the 386 architecture (although peripheral support will
>be somewhat limited).  To get it you need a SOURCE license (read this as 
>lots of $$ unless you are a university).

Note that CSRG is trying to make generic 4.4 "freely" available (that is,
workable without an AT&T license).  Last I saw, they were doing very well.
And all the '386 specific pieces of the 386BSD are "freeware" (covered by
the Berkeley license, which is a very reasonable thing).

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