Thor Lancelot Simon <tls(a)rek.tjls.com> wrote: You may believe whatever you want, but I will only remark that several very prominent VAX hardware gurus (some of them on this list) support my work very eagerly. Whatever you or the NetBSD gang may believe, my True UNIX is the only UNIX system that is really a VAX OS and can truly drive a VAX the way it's supposed to be driven. Don't worry, I'm not planning on doing that. Although I do not consider 4.4BSD to be True UNIX, I do acknowledge that it exists, and I do respect the laws of arithmetics and sequential numbering, so I don't plan on using numbers like 4.5BSD or 5BSD. Instead, I follow CSRG's own convention of calling 4.3-followup systems 4.3BSD-BlahBlahBlah, just like they did with 4.3BSD-Tahoe. Excellent! This gives me the luxury of being free from competitors. Yes, history is history, and I respect it as such. I'm not trying to abuse my write access to the 4BSD collection and maliciously modify some preserved tape image without anyone's knowledge. However, there is nothing in the world that prevents a developer from creating a new version of system from an old one. If there is an SCCS file with deltas ranging from 1.1 to 7.16, there is absolutely nothing in the world preventing a developer with legitimate authorized write access to that file from checking in delta 7.17. I am a legitimate authorized Berkeley UNIX developer (actually the principal one at the present time). My title as the principal maintainer has been legitimized and blessed by the previous CSRG maintainer. First of all, I didn't say "I'm CSRG", I said that I am CSRG's legitimate and authorized successor. Second, there is nothing in the words "Computer Systems Research Group" that is limited to Berkeley. Any group of researchers could conceivably come up with that name. However, doing that would be extremely confusing, therefore, I don't want to do that. Check out the Quasijarus features page: http://minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au/Quasijarus/features.html So far the list is not that long, but keep in mind that the work started less than a month ago. Michael Sokolov TUHS 4BSD Coordinator 4.3BSD-* Maintainer Quasijarus Project Principal Architect & Developer Phone: 440-449-0299 or 216-217-2579 ARPA Internet SMTP mail: mxs46(a)k2.scl.cwru.edu TUHS WWW page: http://minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au/TUHS/ Quasijarus WWW page: http://minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au/Quasijarus/ Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id TAA14823 for pups-liszt; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 19:27:01 +1100 (EST)