From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: arnold@skeeve.com (arnold@skeeve.com) Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 20:37:45 -0700 Subject: [TUHS] HP300/4.4BSD stuff In-Reply-To: <54A486F3.4090403@bitsavers.org> References: <54A48024.8020800@bitsavers.org> <54A486F3.4090403@bitsavers.org> Message-ID: <201501010337.t013bjSM012715@freefriends.org> Al Kossow 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