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From: rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: 386BSD
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Date: 4 Jan 91 00:25:11 GMT
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RREED@ucf1vm.cc.ucf.edu writes:
> Does anyone have information on this port?  I scanned the DDJ article (1/91)
> and at the end it said that the port was done at the University of CA...

Essentially, yes.  Bill Jolitz is the primary person responsible for the
work.  He had a demo version at USENIX Anaheim (last June).

>...I have heard rumors that it is available via ftp somewhere...

No, at least not in its entirety.  BSD remains, as it has for quite a
while, still subject to AT&T licensing.  There are pieces of it which have
been freed, but not the whole thing.  (They're working on it.)
-- 
Dick Dunn     rcd@ico.isc.com -or- ico!rcd       Boulder, CO   (303)449-2870
   ...Mr. Natural says, "Use the right tool for the job."