Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!mailrus!husc6!purdue!decwrl!vixie From: vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul A Vixie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.nsc.32k Subject: Re: BSD port for 32k (was: Re: The 'cost' of a '532 system.) Message-ID: Date: 14 Dec 88 15:11:23 GMT References: <2581@cbnews.ATT.COM> Sender: vixie@decwrl.dec.com Organization: DEC Western Research Lab Lines: 25 In-reply-to: mvadh@cbnews.ATT.COM's message of 13 Dec 88 12:08:17 GMT [mvadh@cbnews.ATT.COM (andrew.d.hay)] # how does one go about obtaining the 4.3BSD source? # inquiring minds want to know... Since you work for AT&T, you won't have a problem. You probably have a corporate System- V source-code license :-) :-) :-). You also probably have a Berkeley license but if you don't it's no big deal. Since you don't have to give AT&T $60,000, giving UCB their small license fee is trivial. Send mail to , he can give you a pointer toward the administrative types who accept checks and make tapes and so on. For anyone outside of AT&T, there is a very good reason not to run BSD on the proposed 32K supermicro I've been watching you all try to design by committee: you have to give AT&T some medium single-digit number of tens of thousands of dollars before Berkeley can let you have their stuff. This is because Berkeley started out with Research V32 way back when; though Berkeley is sifting through their code looking for non-AT&T-derived stuff, you pretty much need the whole thing (that is, including the AT&T-derived stuff) to have a usable kernel. (Personal opinions only, I don't speak for my employer.) -- Paul Vixie Work: vixie@decwrl.dec.com decwrl!vixie +1 415 853 6600 Play: paul@vixie.sf.ca.us vixie!paul +1 415 864 7013