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From: rayan@cs.toronto.edu (Rayan Zachariassen)
Subject: Re: BSD operating system on RTs?
Message-ID: <91May13.102724edt.492@smoke.cs.toronto.edu>
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
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Date: 13 May 91 14:28:09 GMT
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As I understand it, there might be IBM-internal politics involved in freeing
up RT code.  Even though we all know BSD/RT is *no* competition for the
RS/6000 product, there may be people at IBM who feel otherwise.  Someone
at IBM is supposed to have been working on getting them to free up their code,
but I haven't heard of any movement in the area.  If it happens, and gcc2 for
the RT becomes available, it is almost certain to find its way into the UCB
CSRG BSD releases.  This is also the only practical way to distribute post-AOS
4bsd work, since noone is going to want to check AT&T licenses if they aren't
already set up to do it.

rayan