A430@HASARA11.BITNET (Dept. of Mol. Biology, Section of Mol. Cytology) (06/18/91)
I looked this morning at a few ftp sites and on one of them (watmsg.waterloo.edu 129.97.129.9) i found the following entry: bsd: total 3520 -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp 3594491 May 5 1989 bsd43.NoATT.tar.Z It is a bit to large to download immediately but if i am not mistaken this is a unix distibution. Jan Jitze Krol
gt0178a@prism.gatech.EDU (BURNS) (06/19/91)
in article <91169.094358A430@HASARA11.BITNET>, A430@HASARA11.BITNET (Dept. of Mol. Biology, Section of Mol. Cytology) says: > I looked this morning at a few ftp sites and on one of them > (watmsg.waterloo.edu 129.97.129.9) i found the following entry: > bsd: > total 3520 > -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp 3594491 May 5 1989 bsd43.NoATT.tar.Z > It is a bit to large to download immediately but if i am not mistaken > this is a unix distibution. Note, that is pub/bsd:. This looks very similar to the sort of thing you can find on uunet. Note that it is 4.*3*, so doesn't apply to the recent thread on 386bsd4.4. $.3 is not a complete system, as not everything is freed yet. Also, you may have missed these notes from pub/GUIDE: NOTE: John Rogers, the last maintainer of this archive, has graduated and left the university. Everything here except "uSystem", "mag", and "oztex" is likely to become increasingly stale. ^^^^^ [and note the date on the file] bsd: BSD/tahoe sources that are free of AT&T licensing restric- tions. Will likely move to crocus.waterloo.edu soon. doc: Miscellaneous documents, such as tech-reports from other institutions. Incl. the texts of two of Stephen Hawking's popular presentations on time, space, & everything. -- BURNS,JIM (returned student) Georgia Institute of Technology, 30178 Georgia Tech Station, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 | Internet: gt0178a@prism.gatech.edu uucp: ...!{decvax,hplabs,ncar,purdue,rutgers}!gatech!prism!gt0178a
awb@ed.ac.uk (Alan W Black) (06/19/91)
In article <91169.094358A430@HASARA11.BITNET> A430@HASARA11.BITNET (Dept. of Mol. Biology, Section of Mol. Cytology) writes: > I looked this morning at a few ftp sites and on one of them > (watmsg.waterloo.edu 129.97.129.9) i found the following entry: > bsd: > total 3520 > -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp 3594491 May 5 1989 bsd43.NoATT.tar.Z > It is a bit to large to download immediately but if i am not mistaken > this is a unix distibution. > > Jan Jitze Krol This is, by no means, the full bsd distribution but is only the parts of the 4.3 distribution that have been freed of AT&T code and then released under a different licence. This code is also available from uunet.uu.net (192.48.96.2) there are lots there but also lots missing, e.g. over half the kernel. Many utilies are there in full (especially the network stuff) others are missing. Some time ago some netname (I can't remember who) pushed "The Regents of Berekely" into releasing the code that was AT&T free, but there still has to be a lot more than this freed before anyone can come along and build a system from it. Alan Alan W Black 80 South Bridge, Edinburgh, UK Dept of Artificial Intelligence tel: (+44) -31 650 2713 University of Edinburgh email: awb@ed.ac.uk