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Date:      Tue, 20 Jul 1999 13:17:24 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        "Brian O'Connor. (CF583173) HO 2nd Floor" <boconno6@ford.com>
Cc:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: An article about Freebsd
Message-ID:  <19990720131724.E81840@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <199907200342.XAA00366@mailfw1.ford.com>; from Brian O'Connor. (CF583173) HO 2nd Floor on Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 01:42:52PM %2B1000
References:  <199907200342.XAA00366@mailfw1.ford.com>

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On Tuesday, 20 July 1999 at 13:42:52 +1000, Brian O'Connor. (CF583173) HO 2nd Floor wrote:
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Ron Rosson said;
>
> There is a small free magazine put out in CO and San Diego. Well in the
> edition that came out July 16, 1999 the "I don't do windows" article was
> about FreeBSD. Here is the URL:
>
>   http://www.computoredge.com/sandiego/Editorial/idon'tdo.htm
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Hmm, not bad; but
>
>    "Bill Joy, who wrote BSD...."
>    "Suns System V is where the term SysV comes from... "
>
> seems incorrect to me, I know that Bill Joy had a hand in the origional BSD
> but to say he wrote it seems an exaggeration.

Well, Bill Joy released the original BSD, but he didn't write all the
software in it.

> and I thought that SysV stood for the AT&T releases.

Correct.  Sun adopted System V a long time after it was developed.

> Is he right?

No.

Greg
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