Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tektronix!tekcrl!terryl
From: terryl@tekcrl.TEK.COM
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: 4.4 bsd will include OSI support
Message-ID: <2724@tekcrl.TEK.COM>
Date: 9 Jun 88 16:58:21 GMT
References: <11410002@eecs.nwu.edu> <11854@mimsy.UUCP>
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In article <11854@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>You already saw a comment from Marshall Rose; I am not going to say
>anything further in that respect.  But:
>
>>    * 4.4 bsd is scheduled for release next year.
>
>`Next Year' is as slippery as `Real Soon Now' or `Sometime This Week'.
>As with fine wines, Berkeley will `release no code ... before its time'.
>
>You *can* expect the post-4.3-tahoe release (which is supposed to be
>STW, or at least RSN, but anyway BU [Before Usenix] [cute acronyms due
>to Donn Seeley]) to have a POSIX-compatible tty driver.  (It is already
>running at Berkeley, but all the utilities have to be converted ... ugh).
>Whether any of the new virtual memory code or file system reorganisation
>will be done I cannot say.


     Which USENIX???? BSU (before summer USENIX), or BWU (before winter
USENIX)??? Thanx, Chris, I really love those TLA's (three letter acronyms,
but you're gonna hafta find a TLA for BU!!!! (-:).



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