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From: wagner@utoday.com (Mitch Wagner)
Subject: Survey question: The Death of BSD
Organization: Open Systems Today
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 92 20:03:15 GMT
Message-ID: <1992Jun23.200315.6270@utoday.com>
Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd
Keywords: not a net.views question
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What's your reaction to the news that the University of California at
Berkeley will no longer be developing operating systems? Is this a
loss for computer users, or is there now so much good commercial Unix
available that Berkeley (BSD) Unix has outlived its usefulness?
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