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From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: BSD support
Message-ID: <2497@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 19-Jul-86 20:32:06 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jul 19 20:32:06 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 19-Jul-86 23:41:29 EDT
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Reply-To: chris@maryland.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Organization: University of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Sci.
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In article <1132@mcc-pp.UUCP> ables@mcc-pp.UUCP (King Ables) writes:
>You might be interested to know that Mt. Xinu only supports
>4.3BSD to the extent that they want to.  Their contract says
>if they make mods or bug fixes, they can send them to customers,
>but if they don't make any bug fixes, that's ok, too.

How does this differ from the support provided from any other
company?  One trusts a company to fix bugs because one knows the
company will not last long if said company does not, not because
the company has somehow promised to do so.

>'course, that's a lot more support than you'll get from Berkeley
>(0.0001 > 0).

Actually, Berkeley does provide a rather amazing amount of support,
considering that they have no particular need to do so.  I recall
a time a few years ago trying to bring 4.1 up on a 750 with only
an RA81 drive.  We got a boot sequence over the phone to read the
tape, and some similar stuff, and wasted about two hours on that
before discovering that the system had its UDA50 at a non-standard
address . . . .
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