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From: krauss@charlie.igd.fhg.de (Jens Krauss (Steinfath))
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: BSD vs. LINUX
Date: 9 Dec 1994 10:53:21 GMT
Organization: Haus der Graphischen Datenverarbeitung, 64283 Darmstadt, Germany
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In article <KSTAILEY.94Dec8195010@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov>, kstailey@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov (Kenneth Stailey) writes:
> 3.0 BSD
> first demand paging unix
>      |
       .
       .
       . 
> 4.4 BSD (1993) ------------------------->  4.4 BSD-Lite (1994)
> multicasting,
> long fat pipe modifications
> 
> What has LINUX done for UN*X?

It made "UN*X" popular! Also to people never thought about
UN*X's. It's not nice that UCB stoped developement of BSD,
beacause most impulses in the UN*X world are hosted there.

ciao Jens