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In article <4087@ssc-bee.ssc-vax.UUCP>, bruce@ssc-vax.UUCP (Bruce Stock)
writes:
|>Whatever has happened to the release of Berkeley UNIX that was going to 
|>incorporate OSI protocols in the comm stack?  Seems like it was supposed
|>to be available by now.
|>

Uh, it's been available for almost a year now.  4.3BSD-Reno was release in
July, 1990.

To quote from the announcement:

     "The ISO/OSI Networking consists of a  kernel implementation
of  transport  class 4 (TP-4), connectionless networking protocol
(CLNP), and 802.3-based link-level  support  (hardware-compatible
with Ethernet*).  The session and  presentation  layers  will  be
provided  outside  the  kernel by the ISO development environment
(ISODE).  Included  in  this  development  environment  are  file
transfer  and management (FTAM), virtual terminals (VT), a direc-
tory services implementation  (X.500),  and  miscellaneous  other
utilities."

They say support for CONS, X.25, and TP0 is scheduled for 4.4BSD.

They also include other things like a freely redistributable NFS,
POSIX.1 compliance, Kerberos, and so on.  It runs on VAXes (86x0,
82x0, Microvaxes, and the old 7xx stuff), Tahoes (CCI, Harris HCX,
etc.), and HP 9000/300 series machines.

--Dave Curry