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From: ken@gatech.edu (Ken Seefried iii)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.nsc.32k
Subject: Re: BSD port for 32k (was: Re: The 'cost' of a '532 system.)
Keywords: cheap nsc 532
Message-ID: <17659@gatech.edu>
Date: 22 Nov 88 11:22:45 GMT
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Reply-To: ken@gatech.UUCP (Ken Seefried iii)
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In article <8084@daver.UUCP> dlr@daver.UUCP (Dave Rand) writes:
>Ok. Everyone WANTS BSD. I'm game to do the port. How do I get it? I know
>how to get a Binary license for Sys V.3 (and the binary is cheap). How can
>I get one for BSD? Source is nice, but usually too expensive.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>-- 
>Dave Rand
>{pyramid|hoptoad|sun|vsi1}!daver!dlr

Sorry...could let this one go...he DID ask for ideas....

So your going to do a BSD port to the 32k?  And from the binary license, the
source being to expensive...

That shouldn't take you more than a leasurely evenings hacking.  After you're
done with that, why don't you port VM/370, so we can do some transaction
processing.  And then, of course, curing cancer can't possibly wait till
morning, so run take a wack at that.  Then theres that pesky NY <-> London
undersea tunnel people could really use....

(Anyone who needs smiley faces on the above should be hauled out and SHOT...)

Seriously, the BSD kernal is about 800 printed pages, is a 250,000++K binary,
and requires multiple man years to port.  Perhaps Sequent could discuss the
joy and rapture of that port.

I am really encouraged by the enthusiasm that people have shown for this
public domain 32k project, but lets take a sanity check and be realistic about
what we can do so that later, when we find out what cannot be done, people
aren't disappointed and programmers aren't shit apon for not getting things
done.

Can you imagine if I mailed all 3.5 inches of the BSD kernal to Dave and
said "go to it, big guy..."?  Nawwww....I'm not THAT cruel....

And Dave, I don't mean to pick on you, and boy, I really wish you could by
your lonesome whip up a BSD port, but that nasty reality slipped in.  I'm
sorry that you happened to be close by when it struck....

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	ken@gatech.edu		masscomp, rlgvax, sb1, uf-cgrl, unmvax,
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