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From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr)
Subject: Re: Excuse me? [ was Re: Latest release of 386bsd ]
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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
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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
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