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From: jordan%zooks@ADS.ARPA (Jordan Hayes)
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Subject: Re: No More BSD?
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Date: Mon, 26-Oct-87 19:13:33 EST
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Scott Dorsey <kludge@pyr.gatech.edu> writes:

	I know that Berkeley is starting to phase out their own Unix.
	The new vaxen that they are getting all have Ultrix, to
	maintain compatibility with their workstations.  This is a bad
	sign...

Be careful about generalizations here.  "Berkeley" could refer to any
of at least a half-dozen groups on campus that control many machines.
Some of the new machines that have come in (in particular, 8800s) run
Ultrix simply because that's all that's available.  Some of the other
machines run Ultrix because there are bunches of uVaxen that need NFS
file service.  I've seen no evidence that "Berkeley" is going through a
"phase out" of BSD on Vaxen.

Plunking NFS into 4.3 turned out to be quite a job (as Mt. Xinu found
out), and DEC's co-operation with hardware (BI specs, GPX drivers,
etc.) has been less than optimal.  Work continues on BSD (if nothing
else, the papers Kirk and Mike presented last year and the Workshop
last week are evidence), but it's not clear what the future holds.

Anyone who went last week care to comment about stuff that went on?

/jordan