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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: Internet Access Server on 486 -- Best OS ???? Message-ID: <hastyD4wv7G.HvC@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <3itqsh$p3v@crl9.crl.com> <3j55t7$t3r@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <MICHAELV.95Mar2211915@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> Date: Sat, 4 Mar 1995 10:16:28 GMT Lines: 20 Sender: hasty@netcom14.netcom.com In article <MICHAELV.95Mar2211915@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon) writes: >In article <3j55t7$t3r@newsbf02.news.aol.com> filologist@aol.com (Filologist) writes: > > Just one more question. Why is it that no one ever posts messages about > 386bsd? Is there a morbid secret about its performance? Or is it just > unpopular? > >Because it's dead. > Well, I think that 386bsd suffered from a political fall out. It got to the point in which Bill Jolitz refused or was not able to make the next release. I think a lot of things were going on back there which never surface to the net. Amancio -- FREE unix, gcc, tcp/ip, X, open-look, netaudio, tcl/tk, MIME, midi,sound at freebsd.cdrom.com:/pub/FreeBSD Amancio Hasty, Consultant Home: (415) 495-3046 e-mail hasty@netcom.com