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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:12682 comp.os.386bsd.misc:1118 Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!decwrl!decwrl!csus.edu!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: Excuse me? [ was Re: Latest release of 386bsd ] Message-ID: <hastyCE00wv.J1o@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <CD3IB1.3BJ@dragon.dsh.org> <JKH.93Sep9212249@whisker.lotus.ie> <CD61vq.4tu@gremlin.nrtc.northrop.com> Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1993 06:05:19 GMT Lines: 31 In article <CD61vq.4tu@gremlin.nrtc.northrop.com> dec@lazarus.nrtc.northrop.com (Dwight E. Cass) writes: >In article <JKH.93Sep9212249@whisker.lotus.ie> jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes: >>>I'm sorry -- we've had a death in the family and we're not much available >>>right now. The 0.2 update can be obtained by sending a SASE mailer and >>>an error free high-density floppy to: Dr. Dobbs Journal, Tiny 386BSD, >>>411 Borel Avenue, San Mateo, CA. 94402 USA. There is no charge for the >>>service, but if you'd like to send a dollar or more for the kids helped by >>>the Children's Support League (a local charity), it would be most kind. New >>>announcements will be in DDJ and the compuserve DDJ forum (go ddj). >> >>My sincere sympathies, of course (any differences I may have with the >>Jolitzen stop when it comes to loses of this sort), though I can't >>help but wonder at this "0.2 update". How much can you conceivably >>update on a floppy? It looks to me like some sort of reduced >>functionality kernel ("tiny 386bsd") configured to run off a floppy, >>which is hardly what most people had in mind for the 0.2 release! >> > BTW: the tiny 386bsd at least with all *bsd distributions is a fully functionable kernel. In fact, in 3 or 4 diskettes we are also capable of cramming in X with xterm and a few fonts. Cheers, Amancio -- This message brought to you by the letters X and S and the number 3 Amancio Hasty | Home: (415) 495-3046 | ftp-site depository of all my work: e-mail hasty@netcom.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/incoming