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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!news.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!news.uoregon.edu!cs.uoregon.edu!sgiblab!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.intercon.com!panix!not-for-mail From: tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: How was BSD written? Date: 10 Feb 1994 08:01:55 -0500 Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC Lines: 22 Message-ID: <2jdb83$1i9@panix.com> References: <CKxEpn.1Lq@candle.uucp> <1994Feb9.055849.9351@nuchat.sccsi.com> <2jctac$qkd@mail.fwi.uva.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com In article <2jctac$qkd@mail.fwi.uva.nl>, Casper H.S. Dik <casper@fwi.uva.nl> wrote: >steve@sccsi.com (Steve Nuchia) writes: > >>In article <CKxEpn.1Lq@candle.uucp> root@candle.uucp (Bruce Momjian) writes: >>>I always wondered how BSD was written. > >>I always wondered how sysVr4 was written. Did the AT+T programmers >>implement virtual memory and TCP/IP from published specifications, >>or did they have access to BSD code? > >The virtual memory came from Sun. TCP/IP was implemented in different >ways by different vendors, some where implemented from the specification. Which? The allegedly non-BSD Lachman code was demonstrated during the USL/BSDI brouhaha to consist primarily of BSD code with the copyright headers ripped off... -- Thor Lancelot Simon tls@panix.COM But as he knew no bad language, he had called him all the names of common objects that he could think of, and had screamed: "You lamp! You towel! You plate!" and so on. --Sigmund Freud