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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!news.ans.net!cmcl2!panix!tls From: tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon) Subject: Re: How to get BSD for DEC VAXStation 3100? Message-ID: <C3noMG.6yG@panix.com> Organization: Panix Public Access Internet & Unix, NYC References: <1993Mar8.131136.290@nhqvax.hq.nasa.gov> <1ngeuhINNkd2@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1993 04:32:40 GMT Lines: 22 In article <1ngeuhINNkd2@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> jfc@athena.mit.edu (John F Carr) writes: > >BSD does not support the VAXstation 3100. > >MIT did a port of BSD using Ultrix source code (i.e. not free). It would >cost you less to get Ultrix. I don't know if we're allowed to distribute it >to anyone, even to other sites with source. WRL also did this. I think I remember Paul Vixie saying it took "a few weeks". God only knows who's allowed to distribute what to whom; if DEC had half a decent set of brains settled anywhere in their executive levels they'd donate what's needed to CSRG (is it the memory management that's different? That's what I remember hearing, but I'm not sure...) and generate enormous goodwill among their customers who might be stuck with old VAXstations they can't use, while sacrificing a few sales of an operating system that nobody much cares about anyway, and which can't be generating much revenue for DEC at this point, after all. > -- Thor Lancelot Simon tls@panix.COM "I'm guided by the beauty of our weapons." -- Leonard Cohen