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- From: gtoal@gem.stack.urc.tue.nl (Graham Toal)
- Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
- Subject: Re: AT&T vs. BSDI [BSDI response]
- Message-ID: <4852@tuegate.tue.nl>
- Date: 25 Jul 92 15:55:00 GMT
- References: <9207241304.AA03042@antaire.com> <1992Jul24.202238.18012@clarinet.com>
- Sender: root@tuegate.tue.nl
- Reply-To: gtoal@stack.urc.tue.nl
- Organization: MCGV Stack, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands
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- In article <1992Jul24.202238.18012@clarinet.com> brad@clarinet.com (Brad Templeton) writes:
- >The original V7 Unix was a brilliant innovation, but in today's world of
- >megabyte kernels, we forget how small it was, and how easy it would be
- >for a modern trained programmer who has never seen Unix source to duplicate
- >it. But that's not what BSD did.
-
- But they did. I volunteered to write a clone of spell for bsd a couple
- of years ago, and they insisted at the time that I must not look at
- the existing sources. I cloned it by reading the man page and playing
- with the program. I'm fairly sure most of the other utilities were
- handled this way too.
-
- Still, it's all academic now. I hear bsd has dropped out of the game
- and I'm not going to waste my time on supporting bsdi who probably
- are the trigger for waking up ATT. Without them, I suspect Bill Jolitz
- would have brought out a free BSD for 386's, and no-one would have
- complained.
-
- G
-