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From: aad@stpstn.UUCP (Anthony A. Datri)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Future at Berzerkeley
Keywords: Leading Edge == Bottom Line
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Date: 29 Mar 89 04:16:28 GMT
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In article <4572@pt.cs.cmu.edu> jps@cat.cmu.edu (James Salsman) writes:

>a long time, but SysV will always be more stable.

Let's see:  svr1,svr2,svr3,svr3.2,svr4...  Seems like they come out with
versions a lot more often.

>Witness AFS, the Andrew File System: the first nationwide
>file system.  It runs under BSD, and I don't think it'll be
>on SysV machines for a while.

My experiences with AFS have been that it's slow as molasses, and has no
support for diskless machines.  I think much of it is done with additions to
the BSD kernel, and I've heard that it's been done to AIX now.

>BSD code is more accessable; if AT&T wants major innovations

BSD-only code is more accessible, but things with AT&T code still in them
are still a real pain.
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