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From: Jed Clear <clear@netaxs.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Whats so great about FreeBSD?
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 21:15:51 -0400
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aks@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com wrote:
> 
> I am afraid that BSD in general is dead. Sun dropped it as hot potato.

Yeah, Sun dropped BSD at 4.1.3, but the revived it with 4.1.3_U1. And 
whats this 4.1.4?  Next thing you know there'll be a sun4u karch for 
4.1.x.  Funny what happens when paying customers really don't want to 
give up BSD.

-Jed