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From: casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: How was BSD written?
Date: 10 Feb 1994 09:04:12 GMT
Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
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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.

Casper