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From: Jamie Bowden <bowden@cs.odu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Whats so great about FreeBSD?
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 00:54:25 -0400
Organization: Old Dominion University
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On Mon, 17 Jun 1996, Jed Clear wrote:

> 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.

Much as I dislike Master aks, I have to say that sun is most likely done 
with BSD (insert fav. whine here, though solaris has its merits), and 
has indicated to us that they will nolonger support SunOS 4.1.x and 
earlier any longer.  We seem to stuck with SysV in the end.

Jamie

I have my finger on the pulse of the planet.