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Re: BSD Unix for the PC?

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From: Vidiot
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1989 17:37
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In article <28455@amdcad.AMD.COM> phil@diablo.AMD.COM (Phil Ngai) writes:
<In article <1989Dec18.180105.1974@ico.isc.com> rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn) writes:
<|In article <28286@amdcad.AMD.COM>, phil@diablo.amd.com (Phil Ngai) writes:
<|>...I don't think it's been ported
<|> to the PC yet, but there's certainly a 386 version...
<
<I didn't read this carefully enough.
<
<|> Oh, don't worry, I'd bet any sum of money that it will be ported to
<|> the PC. You can get *anything* on a PC.
<
<By PC, I meant 386 or better class machine. Certainly not 8088 or
<80286. 

As I understand the conversations in another net group, the closest we are
going to get to BSD unix for the PCs is with AT&T SysV Release 4.
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From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: BSD Unix for the PC?
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Date: 20 Dec 89 17:37:27 GMT
References: <841@crash.cts.com> <28286@amdcad.AMD.COM> <1989Dec18.180105.1974@ico.isc.com> <28455@amdcad.AMD.COM>
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