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From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Ultrix
Message-ID: <10290@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 26 Sep 88 15:39:52 GMT
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Reply-To: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae)
Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences
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I don't know what this has to do with Amiga's, but this is where I
saw the question ...

Anyway.  Ultrix is originally derived from 4.2BSD.  In order to get
the Ultrix sources you have to have Berkeley liscense.  But DEC has
changed a bunch of stuff around, apparently because they simply felt
like changing stuff around (to lock in customers?), but retained source
code compatibility with BSD.  (NNTP, News, rn, MMDF, UUCP and some others
just compiled and installed w/o hassle on Ultrix when we switched
over from MtXinu's 4.3BSD -- and don't tell me it's a step backwards).

V3.0 of Ultrix is supposed to be 4.3BSD compatible.  I sure hope so!

There are also compatibility stuff in there to make the system SVID
compliant.  This started with some stuff developed by Doug Gwyn
of the Ballistics Research Laboratory.  But again, DEC's Ultrix group
put a lot of effort into the project...
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