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From: kevinj@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Kevin Jackson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: 4.3 on Series 300s
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Date: 20 Jan 89 07:11:53 GMT
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In article <10890@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU> zuhn@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu (Dave Zuhn) writes:
>I seem to remember something recently about a 4.3BSD implementation on
>HP 9000/300's.  We've got a 320 and 4 310's that are the sole Sys V machines
>on our department net.  Is a 4.3 available for some very reasonble cost, such
>as medium costs only, etc.  Can anyone please send me info?
>
There is currently a release of 4.3BSD being distributed by the university
of Utah (utah.colorado.edu).  I think the person to as about this is
Mike Hibler (mike@jaguar.cs.utah.edu).  

They've actually done a fairly nice job.  Some of the things that are 
'hardwired' into the setup can be a problem (e.g. the keyboard must be the
first device in the hil chain on the console), but for the most part 
things work just as you'd expect a 4.3bsd machine to work.  Also, code seems 
to port very easily to these machines.  

kevinj