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From: wollman@trantor.emba.uvm.edu (Garrett Wollman)
Subject: Re: Announcing 386BSD Release 0.1
Message-ID: <1992Jul20.135540.12384@uvm.edu>
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Organization: University of Vermont, EMBA Computer Facility
References: <14cuvtINN568@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1992 13:55:40 GMT
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In article <14cuvtINN568@agate.berkeley.edu> wjolitz@soda.berkeley.edu (William F. Jolitz) writes:
>by  asking  your  news coordinator to subscribe to it. We do
>not recommend using comp.unix.bsd, since 386BSD, like  linux
>and mach, is not a "comp.unix" system.

Sorry, but this argument is bogus.  A few points:

  1.  comp.unix.bsd was created to handle the overflow from
comp.unix.sysv386 after BSDI (yes, big, bad BSDI) announced their
product.

  2.  AIX sure as hell isn't ``comp.unix'' either, but the newsgroup
is called `comp.unix.aix'.

  3.  As far as everybody who is not employed by AT&T and its
licensees is concerned, BSD *is* UNIX, whether it actually contains
AT&T code or not.


Now, if you wanted to claim that the 386BSD-related traffic in
comp.unix.bsd is drowning out all the people who are interested in
other forms of BSD, I would have sympathy for that argument.  It would
then make sense to create `comp.unix.bsd.jolix'.  The last thing we
need is more confusion between 386BSD and BSD/386.

-GAWollman

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