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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:4395 comp.os.linux.misc:31517 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.indirect.com!wes From: wes@indirect.com (Barnacle Wes) Subject: Re: BSD vs. LINUX Message-ID: <D0qArK.GD6@indirect.com> Sender: usenet@indirect.com (System Operator) Organization: the Briney (notso) Deep Date: Tue, 13 Dec 1994 02:54:56 GMT References: <KSTAILEY.94Dec8195010@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov> <maericksD0Mu2u.Dpy@netcom.com> <3cfsi7$eab@nkosi.well.com> <1994Dec12.013008.107511@slate.mines.colorado.edu> X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2.1 [BP] PL2.1] Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Lines: 26 Kenneth Stailey <kstailey@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov> asked: > What has LINUX done for UN*X? Mark Erickson (maericks@netcom.com) wrote: : First operating system assembled by volunteers worldwide in an open, : inclusive fashion? Henry Hwong (henryh@well.sf.ca.us) wrote: # I think BSD qualifies for that honor. Although the code itself # was restricted by the AT&T copyright, many people on the net # contributed to the earlier releases of BSD -- many universities # had a 32V(?) license, which gave a lot of students access to it. Ade Barkah (mbarkah@slate.mines.colorado.edu) wrote: < 32/V code was not `assembled by volunteers worldwide in an < open ... fashion.' 32/V was the 32-bit port of the Bell Lab's < Seventh Edition Unix. Berkeley then took the 32/V, added < enhancements, and offered it as 3BSD. Sure it was. 7th edition was pretty much an outgrowth of all the hacking done around the world, at places like UNSW, on 6th edition. For that reason, I think 7th edition qualifies at the first "World UNIX" to paraphrase a common Ford-ism. ;^) Wes Peters