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From: tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu (Mark Tinguely)
Subject: Re: 386BSD Release: Contributors Only Please...
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Date: Fri, 21 May 1993 16:40:05 GMT
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In article <g89r4222.737966215@kudu> g89r4222@kudu.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet) writes:
>In <almC7BGLz.EDM@netcom.com> alm@netcom.com (Andrew Moore) writes:
>
>>In article <1te9h8$8fn@agate.berkeley.edu> wjolitz@soda.berkeley.edu (William F. Jolitz) writes:
>
>OK.
>Bill went on about how stable the new 386bsd will be and how
>wonderful it will be, but what will really be in it that will
>make it so wonderful and stable?  (ie. - what is going to
>convince me to trash my existing setup and upgrade to 386bsd 0.2
>when it comes out?)

what we need is a networked machine to hammer upon. The ref.tfs.com
machine was invaluable for this reason and it being a central source
of information.

If individually we cannot produce a machine, maybe with very small donations
of 1-2 dollars each over the network users we can get a damn nice machine
that can become the new "ref".


--mark.