Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site spar.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!decvax!decwrl!spar!malcolm From: malcolm@spar.UUCP (Malcolm Slaney) Newsgroups: net.micro,net.unix-wizards Subject: National Semi announces 4.2 BSD :-) Message-ID: <399@spar.UUCP> Date: Mon, 15-Jul-85 22:52:04 EDT Article-I.D.: spar.399 Posted: Mon Jul 15 22:52:04 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 17-Jul-85 20:20:03 EDT Distribution: net Organization: Schlumberger Palo Alto Research, CA Lines: 24 Xref: watmath net.micro:11022 net.unix-wizards:13852 The following is being typed in on my Sun Workstation running 4.2BSD. It is offered without comment..... Today's EE Times has the following story in today's issue: National Offers 4.2 Unix on 32-Bit uP by Stan Baker Santa Clara, CA - National Semiconductor Corp. is now offering Genix 4.2, its port of the Berkeley 4.2 BSD Unix operating system, for the company's 32000 32-bit microprocessor line. This is the first port of the Berkeley 4.2 version for a microprocessor. And for the first time, it brings local-area networking on Unix to microprocessors. The system is aimed at designers of high-end engineering workstations [Several very poorly written paragraphs follow on the difference between 4.2 and System V.] The company went to the Berkeley version of Unix originally, as it was the only one to offer virtual memory. But that has now become a feature of Unix versions from AT&T and Microsoft. So far, no other microprocessor maker offers a Unix implementation with demand-page virtual memory.