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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA7293 ; Mon, 18 Jan 93 10:51:17 EST Xref: sserve comp.org.eff.talk:11778 comp.unix.bsd:10207 comp.unix.wizards:28282 comp.org.usenix:3148 Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.wizards,comp.org.usenix Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!pipex!ibmpcug!gtoal From: gtoal@rachel.ibmpcug.co.uk (Graham Toal) Subject: Re: BSDI/USL Lawsuit -- More Bad News for Human Beings... Organization: The IBM PC User Group On-line services Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 08:35:04 GMT Message-ID: <C1596H.BpM@ibmpcug.co.uk> References: <BZS.93Jan16205935@world.std.com> <1jdibnINN52u@usenet.pa.dec.com> <1993Jan19.224307.22194@prl.dec.com> Sender: news@ibmpcug.co.uk (News System Administration) Nntp-Posting-Host: rachel.ibmpcug.co.uk Lines: 9 In article <1993Jan19.224307.22194@prl.dec.com> boyd@prl.dec.com (Boyd Roberts) writes: >I added copy-on-write into 32V, so can I claim that USL have stolen >_my_ intellectual property with their _pitiful_ attempts in V.[234]? No, because EMAS (Edinburgh Multi Access System) had copy-on-write before you did ;-) [a much underrated system that. shame a great kernel was ruined by a juvenile user interface] G