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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Whats so great about FreeBSD?
Date: 19 Jun 1996 06:43:45 +0100
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Jed Clear (clear@netaxs.com) wrote:
: 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.

Bouncy hot-potatoe syndrome.

--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....