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From: sater@cs.vu.nl (Hans van Staveren)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: MINIX 2.0
Message-ID: <1832@sater.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 20 Dec 88 12:50:04 GMT
References: <575@uvicctr.UUCP> <1815@ast.cs.vu.nl> <8359@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: sater@cs.vu.nl (Hans van Staveren)
Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam
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In article <8359@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Hank S. Wan wrote:
>In article <1815@ast.cs.vu.nl> Andy Tanenbaum writes:
>>
>>   Since Berkeley 4.4BSD will be
>>   POSIX compatible, people who have access to that can test modified MINIX
>>   software there.  I am not sure what the release date is for 4.4.
>
>I don't believe such a beast will ever exist.
>
>Supposedly the university no longer wants to support bug fixes so future
>releases, if any, will be from industry or other universities.
>
>-Hank Wan
> wan@cory.berkeley.edu

At the NLUUG conference in the Netherlands on November 10, 1988
Keith Bostic told about the plans for BSD 4.4. He was a bit vague about
release dates, but my impression was that it would again be distributed,
and that 100% POSIX compliance would be one of the new improved things.

This conference was dedicated to standardization, and Keith said
they had some laughs about people from Berkeley now being invited
to talk about standards. He seemed serious though.

The best part of his talk was about wormhunting however, a subject that
went down much better then all this dry standards work.

	Hans van Staveren
	Vrije Universiteit
	Amsterdam, Holland