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From: sms@WLV.IIPO.GTEGSC.COM (Steven M. Schultz)
Subject: Re: Unix on a PDP-11 and a uVAX II
References: <2f7p2a$cp7@dr-pepper.East.Sun.COM> <2fas7i$8to@fido.asd.sgi.com> <1993Dec23.004550.1@spcvxb.spc.edu>
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Date: Sun, 26 Dec 1993 21:51:41 GMT
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In article <1993Dec23.004550.1@spcvxb.spc.edu> terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr.) writes:
>
>  Yup. Steve has even added support for recent DEC hardware. The current 2BSD
>supports the latest DEC PDP-11 gear, including the PDP-11/93 and 94, the
>RQZX1 combo SCSI/floppy/tape controller, and the DELQA-YM "Turbo DELQA" Ether-
>net controller (in Turbo mode, no less...).

	Don't forget the TOY (Time Of Year) clock support.

>2BSD system. Of course, you still need an WeCo/AT&T/USL/Unix-du-jour license
>in order to be able to order 2BSD, so that cuts the audience down a bit in
>size 8-(

	Novell/X-Open these days i think.  Wonder if they'd be any more
	ameniable to a hobbyist class license scheme than USL was...

>  And if you just want to see what it's all about, you can check out the ar-
>chives of this newsgroup via anonymous FTP from ftp.spc.edu in subdirectory
>[.usenet.comp-bugs-2bsd] (this is a VMS system, which explains the oddball
>syntax). The last 2.5 years of traffic are archived there.

	You can also FTP the updates (with accompanying narrative text)
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	the directory /pub/2.11BSD.

	Steven Schultz
	sms@wlv.iipo.gtegsc.com