Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 18:45:54 -0700 (MST) From: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com> To: dwcjr@inethouston.net (David W. Chapman Jr.) Cc: ajh3@chmod.ath.cx, chris@shenton.org, christopher@schulte.org, jedovaty@yahoo.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Next STABLE release going to be 4.4? Message-ID: <200105010145.SAA00495@freeway.dcfinc.com> In-Reply-To: <022101c0d1cf$2a024080$931576d8@inethouston.net> from "David W. Chapman Jr." at "Apr 30, 1 06:42:05 pm"
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As I recall, David W. Chapman Jr. wrote: > Intel would rather copyright something than make it simple. Its easy > to market something called the pentium and its harder to compare > against a competitor. Which is why the AT7T "System" progression stopped at SysV. Once the copyright/trademark folks got done, and all the documentation got printed, they couldn't afford a SysVI. Nope, instead we got SysV, SysVr2, SysVr3, SysVr4. And then, for good measure (after, for example, Solaris got forked off) we got SysVr4.2 and SysVr4.3. Sheesh... -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.com DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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