Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!phri!roy
From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: IEEE Software blurb on 4.4BSD release
Message-ID: <3465@phri.UUCP>
Date: 7 Sep 88 17:06:36 GMT
Organization: Public Health Research Institute, NYC, NY
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	On page 94 of the September 1988 IEEE Software is an interesting
little blub about 4.4BSD Unix.  Here's a particularly interesting quote:

	"... the BSD 4.4 version scheduled for release in 1989 -- the
	same time the AT&T-Sun Unix is scheduled for release -- will
	not include some AT&T-Sun extensions to BSD 4.2.  For example,
	BSD4.4 will use a new file system, not the proprietary system
	Sun has contributed to the AT&T-Sun Unix."

	My main reaction to that is "Huh?!"  Where do I begin?  What new
file sytem in 4.4?  Why?  Are we talking some new major file system
redesign like what happened with 4.2 or just some tinkering?  And what
proprietary file system from Sun?  Last I heard, Sun uses the normal 4.2BSD
file system.  Are we talking yet another file system?  If so, why?  And is
there really going to be a 4.4?  Is it going to include native NFS or are
we going to have to stick with MtXinu to get that?
-- 
Roy Smith, System Administrator
Public Health Research Institute
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