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From: thieleke@ix.netcom.com.no_uce (Jeff Thieleke)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Any continuing work on BSD at Berkley?
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 97 04:10:30 GMT
Organization: Netcom
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In article <ED0wwv.Bo5@nonexistent.com>, le@put.com (Louis Epstein) wrote:
>Curt Sampson (cjs@cynic.portal.ca) wrote:
>: In article <33BDD2CD.27A51665@inav.net>,
>: Martin B. Pomije <mbpomije@inav.net> wrote:
>: >I looked on the CSRG's web pages and I didn't see any references to any
>: >work that they were still doing on BSD.  Are they doing anything or is
>: >it just being done by the *BSD teams?
>: 
>: No, Berkeley abandoned BSD with the 4.4lite2 release.
>
>Wasn't the first lite also supposed to be the last?


From _The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System_:

  "The last of the money in the CSRG coffers was used to produce a bug-fixed 
   version 4.4BSD-Lite, release 2, that was distributed in June 1995.  This 
   release was the true final distribution from the CSRG".



Jeff Thieleke