Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!aplcen!haven!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: What is 4.3+tahoe? Message-ID: <11140@smoke.BRL.MIL> Date: 24 Sep 89 03:27:35 GMT References: <1989Sep21.130058.15909@rpi.edu> <1190@virtech.UUCP> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 10 In article <1190@virtech.UUCP> cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill) writes: >Rumour has it that DEC was complaining that BSD development on VAXs was >somehow interfering with Ultrix. DEC may have complained (I don't know), but why would that have any effect on what the Berkeley developers did? The BSD developers have stated that a major reason for switching their development base was that CCI was much more cooperative that DEC. For example, it was almost impossible to get sufficient technical information out of DEC for their UDA/HSC protocols, making device driver development very tedious.