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From: aek@bitsavers.org (Al Kossow)
Subject: [TUHS] HP300/4.4BSD stuff
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 21:58:56 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54A4E220.9040502@bitsavers.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201501010337.t013bjSM012715@freefriends.org>

On 12/31/14 7:37 PM, arnold at skeeve.com wrote:

> BSDI came along later and did Unix for the '386; their ads started
> the whole lawsuit stuff. :-(  (Let's not rehash that, please!)
>

well, here is a history

http://www.softpanorama.org/People/Torvalds/Finland_period/att_lawsuit_as_a_launcher_for_linux.shtml

with this in it:

Trent[ Hein] was a student at the University of Colorado, where he was a co-author of both the UNIX and the Linux system administration handbooks. He worked on the 4.4BSD port to the MIPS architecture.






  reply	other threads:[~2015-01-01  5:58 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
2015-01-01  5:58         ` Al Kossow [this message]
2015-01-01  6:04           ` Cory Smelosky

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