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From: chet@odin.INS.CWRU.Edu (Chet Ramey)
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Subject: Re: MINIX
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Date: 31 May 91 13:38:32 GMT
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In article <1991May30.211409.307@swbatl.sbc.com> jburnes@swbatl.sbc.com (Jim Burnes - 235-7444) writes:

>Well if your consider Berkely Unix 4.4 a really maxed out version of
>MINIX...the answer is YES sort of.  In around 3-4 months Berkeley is
>releasing the full 4.4 dist into the public domain.  There is no AT&T
>code in it.  It will be running the mach kernel.

This is wrong.  It will not be running the Mach kernel, though certain
parts of Mach, such as the VM system, have been adopted.  There will
still be AT&T code in the distribution.  CSRG is working as hard as they
can to remove it, but they are not miracle workers.
-- 
                    ``You shoot John Sununu.  Twice.''

Chet Ramey			  Internet: chet@po.CWRU.Edu
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