From: arnold@skeeve.com (arnold@skeeve.com)
Subject: [TUHS] HP300/4.4BSD stuff
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 20:37:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201501010337.t013bjSM012715@freefriends.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54A486F3.4090403@bitsavers.org>
Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote:
> Sorry, misunderstood the question. By the time of 4.4, weren't the
> distributions coming out of Mt Xinu and BSDI? I was just looking at
> press releases from around that time trying to track down BSD with NFS
> for VAX for someone and that seemed to be what was going on.
Mt. Xinu did 4.3 + Sun NFS for the vax. It required owning Unix
licenses before being able to get it from them. I ran it on vaxen
at Emory University in the mid-80s. Initialy it was 4.2 + NFS and
then a few months after 4.3 came out it was 4.3 + NFS. We saw a huge
performance gain in moving to 4.3; I'm convinced we'd have had to
buy another vax if we hadn't switched to 4.3.
That was a good company to work with. Nice folks, very responsive,
and they knew what they were doing.
UCB did the 4.4 distributions - both 4.4 and 4.4-lite. The latter
had all the AT&T code removed but wasn't fully bootable.
BSDI came along later and did Unix for the '386; their ads started
the whole lawsuit stuff. :-( (Let's not rehash that, please!)
Arnold
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-01 3:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-21 6:01 Cory Smelosky
2014-12-21 8:58 ` Jochen Kunz
2014-12-21 9:19 ` Cory Smelosky
2014-12-21 16:19 ` Jochen Kunz
2014-12-21 18:50 ` Cory Smelosky
2014-12-21 23:40 ` Jochen Kunz
2014-12-31 23:00 ` Al Kossow
2014-12-31 23:09 ` Cory Smelosky
2014-12-31 23:29 ` Al Kossow
2014-12-31 23:52 ` Cory Smelosky
2015-01-01 0:59 ` Jeremy C. Reed
2015-01-01 3:37 ` arnold [this message]
2015-01-01 5:58 ` Al Kossow
2015-01-01 6:04 ` Cory Smelosky
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