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Subject: Re: [9fans] new compilers
Date: Sun,  2 Apr 2006 13:12:06 -0700
From: Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com>
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> As for 386-hardware, I already mentioned that Bruce Evans had a
> legitimate minix-386 going, whether virtual memory was involved or
> not, I have no recollection.  The licencing, I recall, was that you
> had to have paid for the source distribution and you were then
> entitled to all subsequent upgrades and so on.  I did not get the
> impression that it was a show stopper at the time, I paid considerably
> more for Plan 9 with a much more restrictive licence.

I seem to recall that 386BSD was available at about the same time.  i
don't know why it didn't catch on the way linux did.