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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 14:22:33 GMT
Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
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tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon) writes:

>>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...

The Solaris 2.x TCP/IP code.  On the surface it seems totally
different from the BSD code.   It is totally different from the
SVR4 tcp/ip code.

Casper