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From: ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie)
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Subject: Re: Mach, the new standard?
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Date: Sat, 22-Aug-87 17:06:17 EDT
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First off.  BSD UNIX more properly required a 32V Unix license (but that's
a nit).  You'd better get a System V license because it will be required
for future releases, I hear.

Second.  Despite all the improvement, all the changes, made to the Berkeley
code, a large portion of the code is still AT&T propietary.  Much of this
is arcane stuff that would be hard to reproduce properly even if one was
concerned.  Perhaps you should call Richard Stallman?

By the way, there have been a number of non-AT&T UNIX-clones out.  Mark
Wilson's Coherent and Whitesmiths' IDRIS come to mind.

-Ron