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From: madd@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Jim Frost)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: AIX questions?
Message-ID: <32280@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: 4 Jun 89 18:40:23 GMT
References: <3580017@eecs.nwu.edu> <592@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> <1209@ttds.UUCP>
Reply-To: madd@bu-it.bu.edu (Jim Frost)
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In article <1209@ttds.UUCP> perand@ttds.UUCP (Per Andersson) writes:
|Well, it is not completely true that BSD is not available on the '386.
|SUN-OS might just be it, it is rumoured that SUN wrote that on a Compaq,
|because the 386i was not finished.

"Rumored"?  There are still hooks in the code :-).

|On the other hand I don't know if SUN
|will sell to anybody not buying a 386i.....

They will not.  Considering they are a hardware company, I'm not surprised.

|Then again, you might check
|out Interactive more closely. The version I have claims to have even BSD
|job control, along with socket library, sendmail etc.

Job control I haven't seen under Interactive, although they certainly
have the rest.  I might not have used the newest version, however.

jim frost
madd@bu-it.bu.edu