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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!caen!uunet!kithrup!sef From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: I wonder, did AT&T backstab BSDI? Keywords: AT&T speculation lawsuit BSDI Message-ID: <1992Jul29.201919.15968@kithrup.COM> Date: 29 Jul 92 20:19:19 GMT Article-I.D.: kithrup.1992Jul29.201919.15968 References: <1992Jul28.153750.8395@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <1992Jul29.144859.8222@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk> <1992Jul29.174437.18606@gateway.novell.com> Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd. Lines: 30 In article <1992Jul29.174437.18606@gateway.novell.com> terry@thisbe.npd.Novell.COM (Terry Lambert) writes: >Things AT&T owes to Berkeley: >2) VFS >3) Memory management strategies That's funny, I could have sworn that these actually came from SunOS. Considering that 4.4ish is the first BSD system to have vnodes, and a decent memory-management scheme, I don't see how SysVr4 (which has been out for a couple of years now) could have gotten it from 4.4... >4) Job control Other systems had job control long before BSD did. >5) csh I use bash or ksh. csh has too many problems. >8) mail/sendmail/smtp Other systems had smtp before, no? sendmail isn't that great, and there are other systems that deliver mail without the horrible configuration problem that sendmail is. And UNIX had mail *long* before UCB ever started playing with unix! -- Sean Eric Fagan | "My psychiatrist says I have a messiah sef@kithrup.COM | complex. But I forgive him." -----------------+ -- Jim Carrey Any opinions expressed are my own, and generally unpopular with others.