1 Jan
2015
1 Jan
'15
9:37 a.m.
Al Kossow <aek(a)bitsavers.org> 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