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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: How UTTERLY Amazing! (Was Re: FreeBSD vs NetBSD)
Date: 5 Oct 1994 18:02:51 GMT
Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman  Montana
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In article <jmonroyCx11pJ.5nv@netcom.com>,
Jesus Monroy Jr <jmonroy@netcom.com> wrote:
>: FreeBSD 2.0, for instance, is no longer
>: based on 386BSD, but is rather based on 4.4-Lite -- if you did a cvs
>: checkout of the initial code in our tree you would (if you were lucky)
>: get 4.4-Lite back.
>:
>	And let's say you  have a *current* version and it
>	hobbles on a few select machines, there is no chance 
>	in hell you can convince me that the *whole* 386bsd
>	code tree has been eliminated... 

Well over 95% of the code has been 'eliminated'.  Considering that
386bsd was over 90% BSD + 10%, I'd say we're doing pretty good.


Nate
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