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Date:      Wed, 5 Feb 2003 07:00:52 -0800 (PST)
From:      Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org>
To:        "=?iso-8859-1?q?Pedro=20F.=20Giffuni?=" <giffunip@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Project status
Message-ID:  <20030205065548.X84870-100000@moo.sysabend.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030205145018.94519.qmail@web13405.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, [iso-8859-1] Pedro F. Giffuni wrote:

> Hmmm ...
>
> The last time I saw an Irix installation CD it
> included some lines about 4.3BSD UNIX, but on the
> latest review I read said "For the Unix side of
> things, IRIX is based on BSD 4.4 ...", see:
>     http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=1859

They may say it, but they're wrong.  I keep /usr/bsd in my path on Irix
machines for access to the BSD bits still around, but Irix is very much
SysV.

> There are no UNIXes out there that don't include at
> least some BSD code, and I'm not talking about old
> UNIX versions. On both IRIX and Darwin, the graphic
> side is unrelated to BSD though.

If you read the copyright notices I posted previously, you'll see that
they infer that the AT&T licensed code includes some Berkeley code, which
is why there's a Berkeley reference in there.

I still have an R3000 Indigo here that works, but I don't have a complete
set of 4.0.x install media (it's currently running 5.3), or I'd check and
see if perhaps 4.x and earlier Irix versions were BSD based, but I don't
think so.  The writer of the article referenced above was using 6.5.17,
and should definately have realized he was on a SysV based Unix.

Jamie Bowden

-- 
"It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take hold"
Hunter S Tolkien "Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur"
Iain Bowen <alaric@alaric.org.uk>



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