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From: daveb@llama.rtech.UUCP (I was right about the comet)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: BSD for 386 boxes?
Message-ID: <1829@rtech.UUCP>
Date: 17 Mar 88 07:37:08 GMT
References: <3697@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
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Organization: Relational Technology, Inc. Alameda, CA
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Keywords: BSD 386

In article <3697@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> wolfgang@mgm.mit.edu (Wolfgang Rupprecht) writes:
>Has anyone, either as an academic excercise, or as a commercial
>product ported BSD 4.x to a '386 box? If so, what do we have to 
>do to legally get a binary and/or source-diff?
>
>We have a 4.3 source liscense for our Vax-11/750, and would be
>interested in also running a Berekely port on a '386 PC clone that we
>just acquired.  I know that System V is available from numerous
>sources, but we'd prefer to run BSD (please no SysV/BSD wars!).

Not quite what you want:  You can buy a Sequent Symmetry running BSD on
386s right now.  In a few months you'll be able to get a workstation
from Sun ("Road Runner") according to a recent PC Week.  I can't comment
on the educational availability of the source for either machine.

-dB
"Do you programmers do sh*t like this a lot?"   "Every g*d*mn day."
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