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Re: announcing the availability of 4.3BSD Usenix manuals

#489
From: Landon Curt Noll
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1986 21:09
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In article <412@spdcc.UUCP> dyer@spdcc.UUCP (Steve Dyer) writes:
 >I agree with John Gilmore here. 

Me too!
 
 >At the very least, some explanation is is order here.  Is this a licensing
 >issue with AT&T or Berkeley?  If so, its logic escapes me and it must be
 >something new, for I've been able to walk off the street and purchase the
 >USENIX 4.2BSD manuals at the Harvard Science Center, no questions asked.
 >What's the necessity of the middleman?

Heck, folks can just plunk down $'s at the CS library at Berkeley can obtain
a set of manuals.  Thats how I got my 4.2BSD set.  Has something happened
with 4.3BSD?  Why can't Usenix provide a service for folks who can't get
to Berkeley?  (or even for folks who can?)

chongo <> /\oo/\
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From: chongo@amdahl.UUCP (Landon Curt Noll)
Newsgroups: net.usenix
Subject: Re: announcing the availability of 4.3BSD Usenix manuals
Message-ID: <3815@amdahl.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 30-Sep-86 17:09:26 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 30 17:09:26 1986
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