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On Thursday 31 July 2003 12:28 am, Greg Lehey wrote:

> Well, no, BSD never contained System V code.  You're thinking of AT&T
> Research UNIX.  The CSRG (Computer Sciences Research Group) had been
> removing AT&T code.

Turns out I was wrong on just about every point! Another reason not to 
trust the answers given on the -newbies list, even if they're matters 
of history instead of technical answers :-)

David