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From: debra@alice.UUCP (Paul De Bra)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Future at Berzerkeley
Message-ID: <9007@alice.UUCP>
Date: 5 Mar 89 17:13:22 GMT
References: <15184@cup.portal.com> <15407@cup.portal.com>
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In article <15407@cup.portal.com> gregh@cup.portal.com (Greg S Hinton) writes:
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}I've heard two conflicting predictions lately about the future of Unix
}development at Berkeley.  One school of thought says that CSRG has lost
}most of its funding (Dept. of Defense?) and so the evolution of BSD has
}come to an end; all their wonderful ideas will be absorbed into System V
}and the world will acheive homogeneous standardhood.
}
}The other school of thought maintains that CSRG has only just begun; in
}fact, a version 4.4 BSD will soon be upon us with some pretty radical
}innovations.  And more will follow.
}
}Who's right?  Or is the truth -- as I suspect -- somewhere between those
}two extremes?

You got it. I don't know about the funding aspect though.
System V release 4 will merge System V release 3 with Bsd 4.3, as much as
possible. This however is mostly AT&T's commitment, and does not stop BSD
from changing Bezerkeley Unix again.

Paul.
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