Date: Sun, 08 Aug 1999 08:00:33 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: "BJ How" <bj-how@mediaone.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Definition of FreeBSD Message-ID: <199908081500.IAA25809@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 08 Aug 1999 03:57:18 PDT." <000801bee18c$c8d006a0$88361e18@mw.mediaone.net>
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>BSD broken down. If this is truly an acronym what the heck is it = >(please don't say its nothing, found this out the hardway with VAX, = >searched all over until I found one book which was actually kind enough = >to state 'if your looking for what the acronym stands for, don't, one = >doesn't exist'). I see that your question about BSD was already answered, so let me answer your other question...VAX stands for "Virtual Address eXtension", which pretty well describes the major difference between it and its predecessor, the PDP (which stands for "Programmed Data Processor"). -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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