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| − | | image = 43bsd.png | + | | image = 43bsd-login.jpg |
| | | caption = Logging into a 4.3 BSD system | | | caption = Logging into a 4.3 BSD system |
| | | name = 4.3 BSD | | | name = 4.3 BSD |
| | | creator = CSRG, University of California, Berkeley | | | creator = CSRG, University of California, Berkeley |
| − | | current version = 4.3BSD-Reno (1990) 4.3BSD-Quasijarus0c (2004) | + | | current version = 4.3BSD (1986) |
| | | year introduced = 1986 | | | year introduced = 1986 |
| | | type = Multitasking, multiuser | | | type = Multitasking, multiuser |
| − | | architecture = [[VAX]], [[Tahoe]] theoretically portable | + | | architecture = [[VAX]], theoretically portable |
| | }} | | }} |
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| − | 4.3 BSD follows 4.2 BSD, with TCP/IP networking, an improved filesystem, in -Tahoe, partial cross-platform capability, and in -Reno, a significant move toward POSIX compliance. This is a favourite with hobbyists, as being open source there are no licencing concerns and the tape data is freely available online, and it runs very well in [[SIMH]]. 4.3 BSD is also quoted as being the [http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=191901844 The Greatest Software Ever Written]. | + | '''4.3 BSD''' follows [[4.2 BSD]], with more mature [[TCP/IP]] networking, an improved [[file system]], in -Tahoe, partial cross-platform capability, and in -Reno, a significant move toward POSIX compliance. This is a favourite with hobbyists, as being open source there are no licencing concerns and the tape data is freely available online, and it runs very well in [[SIMH]]. 4.3 BSD is also quoted as being the [http://www.informationweek.com/whats-the-greatest-software-ever-written/d/d-id/1046033? The Greatest Software Ever Written]. |
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| | ``The single Greatest Piece of Software Ever, with the broadest impact on the world, was BSD 4.3. Other Unixes were bigger commercial successes. But as the cumulative accomplishment of the BSD systems, 4.3 represented an unmatched peak of innovation. BSD 4.3 represents the single biggest theoretical undergirder of the Internet. Moreover, the passion that surrounds Linux and open source code is a direct offshoot of the ideas that created BSD: a love for the power of computing and a belief that it should be a freely available extension of man's intellectual powers--a force that changes his place in the universe.`` | | ``The single Greatest Piece of Software Ever, with the broadest impact on the world, was BSD 4.3. Other Unixes were bigger commercial successes. But as the cumulative accomplishment of the BSD systems, 4.3 represented an unmatched peak of innovation. BSD 4.3 represents the single biggest theoretical undergirder of the Internet. Moreover, the passion that surrounds Linux and open source code is a direct offshoot of the ideas that created BSD: a love for the power of computing and a belief that it should be a freely available extension of man's intellectual powers--a force that changes his place in the universe.`` |
| | + | </blockquote> |
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| − | == 4.3 BSD ==
| + | The first version of 4.3 BSD incorporates many performance fixes related to the release of 4.2 BSD. Many people have listed this piece of software as the single most important piece of software ever. Without doubt, it's responsible for influencing almost all operating systems that ever connected to the Internet, and its TCP/IP stack was used for countless other OS's. While not as feature rich as the other 4.3's it is known for being faster then 4.2. However, this version does *NOT* support the [[MicroVAX II]] that [[SIMH]] emulates, but rather the [[VAX-11/780]] (which is now also simulated by SIMH). |
| − | The first version of 4.3 BSD incorporates many performance fixes related to the release of 4.2 BSD. Many people have listed this piece of software as the single most important piece of software ever. Without doubt, it's responsible for influencing almost all operating systems that ever connected to the intenet, and it's TCP/IP stack was used for coutless other OS's. While not as feature rich as the other 4.3's it is known for being faster then 4.2 . However this version does *NOT* support the [[MicroVAX II]] that [[SIMH]] emulates, but rather the [[VAX-11/780]]. | |
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| | This version seems to have been released on June 6th 1986. (dated from the GENERIC build directory in the kernel source tree.) | | This version seems to have been released on June 6th 1986. (dated from the GENERIC build directory in the kernel source tree.) |
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| − | == 4.3 BSD+NFS Wisconsin Unix ==
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| − | This release dates around Jan 20 1987. It never seems to have made mainstream use, and I can only find a single site that ran it on the old UUCP network. This release is signifigant in that it incorporated the SunOS NFS code, and a few bits of SunOS to flesh it out. A few people from the University of Wisconsin went on to work for SUN so it's no surprise the ammount of Sun source in this release. This release is only for VAX's and runs under SIMH's 11/780 emulator just fine.
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| − | == 4.3 BSD-Tahoe ==
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| − | Tahoe follows up on 4.3 BSD in 1988 with plans to ditch the aging (ironically it would be around for 12 more years...) VAX platform with machine independence and a port to the "Tahoe" [[Power 6/32]] platform. No one has any idea what this Tahoe computer is, as it completely disappeared off the face of the planet shortly after.
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| − | The original announcement is here http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.tahoe/browse_thread/thread/e7431a9ef74cd7eb#
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| − | === Announcement ===
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| − | <pre>
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| − | Newsgroups: comp.sys.tahoe
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| − | From: bos...@OKEEFFE.BERKELEY.EDU (Keith Bostic)
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| − | Date: 15 Jun 88 23:56:31 GMT
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| − | Local: Wed, Jun 15 1988 6:56 pm
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| − | Subject: 4.3BSD-tahoe release
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| − | We are happy to announce the availability of the release of
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| − | 4.3BSD for the tahoe processors. Attached is a brief summary
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| − | of the information mailed to all 4.2 and 4.3BSD licensees.
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| − | This mailing contains all necessary ordering information;
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| − | if you have not received it by July 5th, please contact our
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| − | distribution office at +1-415-642-7780.
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| − | Mike Karels
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| − | Kirk McKusick
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| − | Keith Bostic
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| − | ========================
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| − | We are happy to send you information about our June
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| − | 1988 revision of the Fourth Berkeley Software Distribution,
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| − | hereafter referred to as the ``4.3BSD tahoe'' distribution.
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| − | The purpose of this release is to provide 4.3BSD support for
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| − | the ``tahoe'' processor and to get feedback on some new
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| − | features and facilities that we expect to include in future
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| − | Berkeley releases. This distribution is not a standard
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| − | Berkeley release; it is an interim release intended for
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| − | testing and evaluation rather than production use by naive
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| − | users. The distribution is available to users with licenses
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| − | for the April 1986 4.3BSD release for the VAX.
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| − | What is the 4.3BSD Tahoe Release?
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| − | The distribution consists of one 6250 BPI or three 1600
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| − | BPI magnetic tapes, certain updated manual pages, and a copy
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| − | of ``Installing and Operating 4.3BSD on the Tahoe.'' The
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| − | magnetic tape(s) contain copies of source code and documen-
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| − | tation for both the VAX and the tahoe, and binaries for the
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| − | tahoe. On the three-tape 1600 BPI set, parts of the user-
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| − | contributed software are shipped as compressed archives to
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| − | save space.
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| − | The primary purpose of this release is to provide sup-
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| − | port for the ``tahoe'' processor, the CPU used by Computer
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| − | Consoles, Inc. (CCI Power 6/32, 6/32SX), and high end lines
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| − | of Harris (HCX-7 and HCX-9), Unisys (7000/40), and ICL (Clan
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| − | 7). Support for this processor is derived from the 4.2BSD
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| − | system done by CCI. Support for new DEC equipment has also
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| − | been added, including support for the 8250 BI-based CPU and
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| − | the KDB-50 BI disk controller from Chris Torek, and the QVSS
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| − | and QDSS display drivers for the MicroVAX II, contributed by
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| − | Digital Equipment Corporation. We expect to provide support
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| − | for both the VAX and the tahoe processors in future
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| − | releases.
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| − | The major new software systems include the following
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| − | features:
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| − | + The TCP and IP code is the same as that recently made
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| − | available via the ARPANET and Usenet. Several new
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| − | algorithms are used in TCP, in particular Van
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| − | Jacobson's slow start and dynamic window size selection
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| − | algorithms and Phil Karn's modification to the round-
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| − | trip timing algorithm. These changes increase
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| − | throughput and reduce congestion and retransmission.
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| − | Several fixes were made in the handling of IP options
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| − | and other gateway support.
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| − | + The file system has been generalized to remove the lim-
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| − | its on the maximum number of inodes per cylinder group,
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| − | cylinders per cylinder group, and number of dis-
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| − | tinguished rotational positions. The kernel and file
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| − | system utilities operate normally on both new and old
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| − | format file systems; old kernels treat the new file
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| − | systems as read-only. This change allows better utili-
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| − | zation of newer disks with larger numbers of sectors
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| − | per cylinder.
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| − | + The system has full support for disk labels that con-
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| − | tain disk geometry information and partition layout on
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| − | each disk. Labels are used on disks using the hp or
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| − | uda drivers on the VAX (hp or ra disks) and all sup-
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| − | ported disks on the tahoe. The utility to read and
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| − | write disk labels can be used with the system running
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| − | multiuser; the labels are used and updated as appropri-
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| − | ate by newfs, bad144, the kernel and the bootstrap pro-
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| − | grams. Basic file system parameters are stored in the
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| − | label so that fsck can locate alternate superblocks.
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| − | The filesystem and newfs use additional information
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| − | about the disk geometry that is now available, such as
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| − | track-to-track skew.
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| − | + A new general-purpose dynamic memory allocator has been
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| − | written that can be used by all the kernel subsystems.
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| − | The design of this allocator takes advantage of known
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| − | memory usage patterns in the UNIX kernel, using a
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| − | hybrid strategy that is time-efficient for small allo-
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| − | cations and space-efficient for large allocations.
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| − | This allocator replaces most of the previous memory
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| − | allocation interfaces with a single easy-to-program
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| − | interface, results in more efficient use of global
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| − | memory by eliminating partitioned and specialized
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| − | memory pools, and is quick enough that no performance
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| − | loss is observed relative to the previous implementa-
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| − | tions. Most of the kernel memory allocation is now
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| − | done using this allocator.
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| − | + The source code has been reorganized to ease support of
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| − | multiple machine types.
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| − | + The Olson/Harris/Elz timezone implementation has been
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| − | added to the system.
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| − | + Numerous bug fixes and enhancements have been made
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| − | throughout the system, including new versions of the
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| − | nameserver named and the routing daemon routed.
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| − | Several years' backlog of bug fixes have been applied.
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| − | + We have started a process of identifying the code in
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| − | the 4.3BSD distribution that is not derived from AT&T
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| − | code. The copyrights in this code have been changed to
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| − | indicate that it may be freely distributed if the copy-
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| − | right notice is retained and that due credit for its
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| − | origin is given to The Regents of the University of
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| − | California. Over 1000 files have been identified in
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| − | this distribution.
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| − | </pre>
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| − | == 4.3 BSD-Reno ==
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| − | Following up in 1990 comes -Reno, with a significant thrust toward POSIX compliance, (with an associated increase in code size).
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| − | === Announcement ===
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| − | http://groups.google.com/group/comp.archives/browse_thread/thread/75ef2eac9c5baf24?q=V1.90+4.3BSD
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| − | <pre>
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| − | Newsgroups: comp.archives
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| − | Followup-To: comp.bugs.4bsd.ucb-fixes
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| − | From: bos...@OKEEFFE.BERKELEY.EDU (Keith Bostic)
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| − | Date: 6 Jul 90 16:11:59 GMT
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| − | Local: Fri, Jul 6 1990 11:11 am
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| − | Subject: [comp.bugs.4bsd.ucb-fixes] V1.90 (4.3BSD-Reno)
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| − | Archive-name: 4.3bsd-reno/06-Jul-90
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| − | Original-posting-by: bos...@OKEEFFE.BERKELEY.EDU (Keith Bostic)
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| − | Original-subject: V1.90 (4.3BSD-Reno)
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| − | Reposted-by: e...@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti)
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| − | Subject: 4.3BSD-Reno
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| − | Description:
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| − | 4.3BSD-Reno is available! The attached is the cover letter
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| − | of the information packet which will be sent to 4BSD licensees
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| − | in the next few days.
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| − | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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| − | Dear Colleague:
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| − | We are happy to send you information about our June, 1990
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| − | test release of the Fourth Berkeley Software Distribution,
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| − | 4.3BSD-Reno. This release represents an intermediate point in
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| − | the development of 4.4BSD; several new facilities have been com-
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| − | pleted and are ready for external use, while other new facilities
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| − | slated for the 4.4BSD release have not yet been integrated. Our
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| − | goal in making this release available is to get feedback on any
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| − | problems in the design or implementation of the new facilities,
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| − | as well as to allow adventurous sites to gain experience with
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| − | these portions of 4.4BSD.
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| − | This distribution is NOT intended to be used on production
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| − | systems; nor is it intended for sites without sufficient local
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| − | expertise to find and fix any problems that are encountered. It
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| − | is intended to be used to provide an advance look at some of the
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| − | facilities and interfaces that we will be distributing in 4.4BSD.
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| − | We are interested in getting feedback on the problems that you
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| − | find and also any compatibility problems that you anticipate in
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| − | trying to convert your applications to run on this release. The
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| − | interfaces in this release will change before the release of
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| − | 4.4BSD (at least in part based on feedback from this test group).
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| − | Thus, you should not expect applications ported to this release
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| − | to work unchanged on 4.4BSD.
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| − | Unlike past test releases, 4.3BSD-Reno is being made gen-
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| − | erally available to 4.3BSD licensees, and 4.3BSD-Reno may be
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| − | redistributed and used in released products (within the usual
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| − | licensing constraints). However, you will have to upgrade any
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| − | code that you use from 4.3BSD-Reno to the 4.4BSD code within one
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| − | year of the release of 4.4BSD. We appreciate your help in this
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| − | debugging effort and look forward to hearing from you. Please
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| − | send your comments to reno43-b...@okeeffe.Berkeley.EDU. We
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| − | regret that changes documents are not available; the next section
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| − | outlines the major changes available in 4.3BSD-Reno.
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| − | The license to 4.3BSD-Reno is simply an Addendum to the
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| − | 4.3BSD License. Sites without a 4.3BSD license may obtain both
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| − | 4.3BSD and 4.3BSD-Reno simultaneously, but must sign a 4.3BSD
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| − | license as well as the Addendum. Contact the distribution office
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| − | for 4.3BSD licensing information. 4.3BSD is available only to
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| − | sites with UNIX/32V, System III, or System V source licenses
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| − | with AT&T. We are actively working to decrease the amount of
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| − | AT&T code in the system. We expect that we will provide a subset
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| − | of 4.4BSD without the AT&T code to sites without requiring an
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| − | AT&T license. However, we are not prepared to make that determi-
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| − | nation for this release, so we are providing only tapes with the
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| − | The enclosed information is designed to serve two purposes.
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| − | The first purpose is to acquaint you with the details of our dis-
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| − | tribution so you can decide whether you would like to receive it.
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| − | The second purpose is to tell you how to obtain our distribution.
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| − | What is 4.3BSD-Reno?
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| − | The distribution consists of one 6250 bpi or three 1600 bpi
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| − | magnetic tapes containing full sources and documentation plus one
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| − | set of binaries. You may specify VAX and/or Tahoe (CCI Power
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| − | 6/32) binaries.
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| − | The three major new facilities available in the 4.3BSD-Reno
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| − | release are the addition of ISO/OSI networking support, a freely
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| − | redistributable implementation of NFS, and the conversion to and
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| − | addition of the POSIX.1 facilities. There are numerous other
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| − | changes throughout the system.
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| − | The ISO/OSI Networking consists of a kernel implementation
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| − | of transport class 4 (TP-4), connectionless networking protocol
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| − | (CLNP), and 802.3-based link-level support (hardware-compatible
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| − | with Ethernet*). The session and presentation layers will be
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| − | provided outside the kernel by the ISO development environment
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| − | (ISODE). Included in this development environment are file
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| − | transfer and management (FTAM), virtual terminals (VT), a direc-
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| − | tory services implementation (X.500), and miscellaneous other
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| − | A new virtual filesystem interface has been added to the
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| − | kernel to support multiple filesystems. Although generally simi-
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| − | lar to Sun's vnode interface, the Berkeley interface has been
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| − | structured for more efficient support of filesystems that main-
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| − | tain state (such as the local filesystem). In addition to the
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| − | local ``fast filesystem'', we have added an implementation of the
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| − | network filesystem (NFS) that fully interoperates with the NFS
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| − | shipped by Sun and its licensees. Because our NFS implementation
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| − | was implemented using only the publicly available NFS
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| − | specification, it does not require a license from Sun to use in
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| − | source or binary form. By default it runs over UDP to be compa-
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| − | tible with Sun's implementation. However, it can be configured
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| − | on a per-mount basis to run over TCP. Using TCP allows it to be
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| − | used quickly and efficiently through gateways and over long-haul
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| − | networks. We have also added a memory-based filesystem that runs
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| − | The quota system has been rewritten to support both user and
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| − | based on time rather than the previous metric of number of logins
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| − | over quota. This change makes quotas more useful on fileservers
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| − | onto which users seldom login.
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| − | The 4.3BSD-Reno distribution contains most of the interfaces
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| − | specified in the POSIX.1 system interface standard. The biggest
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| − | area of change is a new terminal driver. The terminal driver is
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| − | similar to the System V terminal driver with the addition of the
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| − | necessary extensions to get the functionality previously avail-
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| − | able in the 4.3BSD terminal driver. 4.3BSD-Reno also adds the
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| − | POSIX job control interface, which is similar to the 4.3BSD job
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| − | control interface, but adds a security model that was missing in
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| − | the 4.3BSD job control implementation. Other additions include
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| − | POSIX signals, FIFO's, and saved user and group identifiers. We
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| − | have been tracking the POSIX shell and utility work and have
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| − | included prototypes of many of the proposed utilities. Finally,
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| − | we have converted about 80% of the libraries and header files to
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| − | Work has also progressed in several other areas. Several
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| − | including TCP header prediction and serial line IP (SLIP) with
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| − | header compression. The routing implementation has been com-
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| − | pletely rewritten to use a hierarchical routing tree with a mask
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| − | per route to support the arbitrary levels of routing found in the
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| − | ISO protocols. The routing table also stores and caches route
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| − | characteristics to speed the adaptation of the throughput and
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| − | The Kerberos (version 4) authentication software has been
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| − | integrated into much of the system (except NFS) to provide the
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| − | first real network authentication on BSD.
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| − | The hardware supported by 4.3BSD-Reno is:
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| − | + VAX (86x0, 78x, 750, 730; MicroVAX II, 3200/3500/3600; 82x0)
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| − | In addition, kernel support for the Intel i386 and many AT-bus
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| − | peripherals has been added recently; contact the distribution
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| − | For this distribution, binaries will be available for only the
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| − | VAX and Tahoe architectures. The 4.4BSD distribution will prob-
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| − | The reason that this distribution is not labeled 4.4BSD-
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| − | alpha is because it does not contain several major interfaces
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| − | + A new virtual memory system using the mmap interface
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| − | described in the 4.3BSD architecture document. The inter-
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| − | cial versions of UNIX such as SunOS 4.0.
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| − | + Support for ISO Connection-Oriented Network Service, X.25,
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| − | TP-0.
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| − | + A new internal network layering (``bstreams'') combining
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| − | All previous 4.3BSD licensees will be able to receive the
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| − | 4.3BSD Reno release simply by executing the steps outlined below.
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| − | 4.2BSD licensees who have not yet upgraded to 4.3BSD will be
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| − | required to do so as well as following the steps outlined below
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| − | for the Reno distribution. For further information on ordering
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| − | the standard 4.3BSD distribution, contact our distribution office
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| − | at the address given below.
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| − | Because we are a research and development organization and
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| − | not a commercial organization, we make our research results
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| − | available for a fee which covers only our costs for the distribu-
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| − | tion. We distribute only the whole system and cannot send indi-
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| − | vidual pieces of the system. Because the software is distributed
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| − | ``As Is'' and is partially derived from licensed material, we are
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| − | required to have a formal license arrangement with each organiza-
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| − | tion to which we distribute.
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| − | Specifically, we must receive from your organization the
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| − | following material before the distribution can be sent:
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| − | + Two appropriate signed Addenda for the Reno distribution if
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| − | you are a 4.3BSD licensee. Add to that the appropriate
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| − | Addendum to receive the upgrade if you are a 4.2BSD licen-
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| − | see. For new licensees, two executed copies of the Berkeley
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| − | License Agreement (4/86) with the appropriate Addendum,
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| − | i.e., for foreign or US government sites, plus the Addendum
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| − | for the Reno distribution. We require two copies of all
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| − | Agreements/Addenda with original signatures, one of which is
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| − | returned to the Licensee. The name of the organization on
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| − | the Addendum No. Three must be the same as that which
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| − | appears on the Software Agreement with AT&T (or Western
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| − | Electric). The Addendum No. Three must be signed by a duly
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| − | authorized person who holds a position that is at the same
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| − | level or a higher level of authority as that which appears
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| − | on the AT&T Software Agreement. Please have this person's
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| − | name and title typed in the available space in addition to
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| − | the signature.
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| − | + A check from a U.S. bank for $495.00 U.S. (for a single 6250
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| − | BPI tape of 4.3BSD-Reno) or $595.00 (for three 1600 BPI
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| − | tapes of 4.3BSD-Reno) payable to ``The Regents of the
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| − | University of California'' must be received before the dis-
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| − | tribution can be sent. If you must issue a Purchase Order,
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| − | please issue one that is blank-backed. If this is not pos-
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| − | sible, insert and initialize in the body of the Purchase
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| − | Order the following clause: ``The terms and conditions of
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| − | this Purchase Order are not accepted by The Regents of the
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| − | University of California. The revised Berkeley License
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| − | Agreement (4/86) governs.'' For 4.2 licensees that have
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| − | updated to 4.3BSD, substitute ``The terms and conditions of
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| − | this Purchase Order are not accepted by The Regents of the
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| − | University of California. The revised Berkeley License
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| − | Agreement (6/83) and Addendum Number Three govern.''
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| − |
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| − | + A completed Site Information Form. The distribution itself
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| − | will be sent to the technical contact. The site information
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| − | is kept confidential and is for our use in identifying sites
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| − | with specific configurations. Please note that we cannot
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| − | ship to post office boxes; therefore, please have the techn-
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| − | ical contact's address supplied without use of a post office
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| − | box.
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| − | A checklist is included to aid you in assembling this
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| − | material. All the above material must be sent to:
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| − | Distribution Coordinator
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| − | Computer Systems Research Group
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| − | Computer Science Division, EECS
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| − | University of California
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| − | Berkeley, California 94720
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| − | Once all these items have been received and are in proper order,
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| − | the distribution will be sent to the technical address indicated
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| − | on the Site Information Form that you provided when you placed
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| − | your order; we cannot provide delivery dates. Once the material
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| − | is assembled and packaged, the distribution is shipped by commer-
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| − | cial carrier. Order of shipment will be based on time of arrival
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| − | of the properly completed paperwork. Because of the differential
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| − | in costs of shipping outside the United States, we ask that
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| − | organizations beyond the North American continent pay the collect
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| − | shipping charges.
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| − |
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| − | The most expedient way to insure that your full distribution
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| − | is sent as quickly as possible is to include in a single package
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| − | the signed appropriate Addenda (without modification) for the
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| − | Reno distribution plus any other necessary signed legal papers,
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| − | depending on your licensing status, the appropriate check prop-
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| − | erly made out to ``The Regents of the University of California,''
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| − | and a completely filled-out Site Information Form, and to send
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| − | this single package to the address noted above.
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| − | Large Organizations
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| − | Many large organizations have multiple entities that act
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| − | independently from one another and are licensed independently
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| − | from AT&T. Others have the parent organization licensed by AT&T
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| − | and copies of the software distribution sent to each independent
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| − | entity. The Berkeley License Agreement must be executed with the
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| − | organization holding the appropriate AT&T Software Agreement.
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| − |
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| − |
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| − | If your organization has an AT&T license and chooses not to
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| − | redistribute internally, please contact us for a copy of the
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| − | letter of authorization to be executed by the parent company.
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| − | Special Cases
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| − | University of California Sites. If you are a part of the
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| − | University of California, and do not already have an AT&T source
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| − | license for your CPU, you must use the following procedure: ask
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| − | Pam True (415) 642-6348 at Berkeley Campus Materiel Management
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| − | for an application for an additional CPU authorization under The
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| − | Regents of the University of California's Software Agreement with
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| − | AT&T. We will receive the completed application from Materiel
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| − | Management. If you have previously obtained a Berkeley License
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| − | for your CPU or have an AT&T source license for your CPU, you do
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| − | not need to contact the Materiel Management Office.
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| − |
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| − | In all cases, the following items must be sent to the Com-
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| − | puter Systems Research Group: 1) a letter signed by the Director
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| − | or Head of Department requesting 4.3BSD-Reno, stating that you
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| − | have read and understood the Berkeley License Agreement and that
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| − | your organization will abide by it, 2) an IOC for $495.00 or
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| − | $595.00 (1600 BPI), and 3) a Site Information Form if the contact
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| − | information has changed.
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| − | DARPA Sites. The research on which the Berkeley Software
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| − | Distributions are based has been sponsored by DARPA (Defense
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| − | Advanced Research Projects Agency). Provision has been made for
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| − | prepayment of distribution costs for a few designated DARPA
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| − | sites. In place of the check for $495.00 or $595.00, you should
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| − | include a letter from your Program Manager stating that you are
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| − | designated as such a site. However, you must comply with all
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| − | other requirements in applying for the distribution.
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| − | A Special Note
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| − | The procedures and rules set out in this document are
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| − | University and AT&T constraints that must be followed in order
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| − | for the distribution of software to be possible. The Computer
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| − | Systems Research Group has no control over these constraints and
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| − | must reject your application if material submitted is not in
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| − | order.
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| − |
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| − | If You Have Read Everything and Still Need Help
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| − |
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| − |
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| − | If you have questions about the licensing process after
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| − | reading this letter, you may call the distribution group at (415)
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| − | 642-7780, write to them at the address above, or contact them via
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| − | electronic mail at bsd-d...@Berkeley.EDU or ucbvax!bsd-dist. They
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| − | will not be able to answer technical questions.
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| − | Sincerely yours,
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| − | Mike Karels
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| − | Computer Systems Research Group
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| − | July 6, 1990
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| − | _________________________
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| − | UNIX, UNIX/32V, UNIX System III, and UNIX System V are registered
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| − | trademarks of AT&T in the USA and other countries.
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| − | Ethernet is a trademark of the Xerox Corporation.
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| − | </pre>
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| − |
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| − | == 4.3 BSD-Quasijarus ==
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| − |
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| − | http://ifctfvax.harhan.org/Quasijarus/
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| − |
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| − | "Quasijarus is a project of the International Free Computing Task Force (IFCTF) led by Michael Sokolov to indefinitely continue the maintenance, support, and further development of the classic line of Berkeley UNIX on the classic VAX hardware."
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| − |
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| − | A fork of 4.3 BSD-Tahoe to maintain it, for the VAX architecture. This is often the distribution that hobbyists will install on real or, especially, emulated VAXen.
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| | | | |
| | == How do I get this to run?! == | | == How do I get this to run?! == |
| | | | |
| − | The Unix Heritage Society's archives have copies of most 4-BSD variants http://minnie.tuhs.org/TUHS/ However, they're not immediately in ready-to-use-in-SIMH tape format. We should get a repository of SIMH-ready tape images up here. | + | [[The Unix Heritage Society]]'s archives have copies of most 4-BSD variants http://minnie.tuhs.org/TUHS/ However, they're not immediately in ready-to-use-in-SIMH tape format. There is a repository of SIMH-ready tape images on [https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=204974&package_id=309407 sourceforge]. |
| | | | |
| − | 4.2 & 4.3BSD Reno are in ready to run formats on [http://sourceforge.net/projects/bsd42/ sourceforge]
| + | There are 'ready to run' version for windows users available right here again on [https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=204974&package_id=245145 sourceforge]. All of the 4.2 & 4.3 BSD variations have built in SLiRP networking, and will be able to connect out to the internet without any device drivers. |
| − | | |
| − | The 4.3 RENO has built in networking so you have limited internet access (Using SLiRP)
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| | | | |
| | [[SIMH]] Installation instructions | | [[SIMH]] Installation instructions |
| | *Installation instructions for 4.3 BSD can be found [[Installing 4.3 BSD on SIMH|here]] | | *Installation instructions for 4.3 BSD can be found [[Installing 4.3 BSD on SIMH|here]] |
| − | *Installation instructions for 4.3 BSD +NFS Wisconsin Unix can be found [[Installing 4.3 BSD+NFS Wisconsin Unix|here]]
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| − | *Installation instructions for 4.3 BSD TAHOE can be found [[Installing 4.3 BSD TAHOE on SIMH|here]]
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| − | *Installation instructions for 4.3 BSD RENO can be found [[Installing 4.3 BSD RENO on SIMH|here]]
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| − | *Installation instructions for 4.3 BSD Quasijarus 0c can be found [[Installing_4.3_BSD_Quasijarus_on_SIMH|here]]
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| | | | |
| | == What Runs? == | | == What Runs? == |
| | + | On [http://sourceforge.net/projects/bsd42/files/ sourceforge], I've placed [[SIMH]] install tapes of the following: |
| | | | |
| − | 4.3 BSD-Reno includes a large amount of POSIX which dramatically improves compatibility with many modern and older *nix packages. A lot of people don't like -Reno as its embracing of POSIX is rather treasonous to the BSD ideal. So what compiles on 4.3 BSD-Tahoe or its maintained version, -Quasijarus? | + | *[[dungeon]] [http://sourceforge.net/projects/bsd42/files/Package%20Tapes/4.3%20BSD/dungeon-2.5.6.binary.BSD-4.3.tap.bz2/download 2.5.6] |
| | + | *[[flex]] [http://sourceforge.net/projects/bsd42/files/Package%20Tapes/4.3%20BSD/flex-2.5.4.binary.BSD-4.3.tap.bz2/download 2.5.4] |
| | + | *[[gcc]] [http://sourceforge.net/projects/bsd42/files/Package%20Tapes/4.3%20BSD/gcc-1.42.binary.BSD-4.3.tap.bz2/download 1.42] |
| | + | *[[gcc]] [http://sourceforge.net/projects/bsd42/files/Package%20Tapes/4.3%20BSD/gcc-2.4.5.binary.BSD-4.3.tap.bz2/download 2.45] |
| | + | *[[gcc]] [http://sourceforge.net/projects/bsd42/files/Package%20Tapes/4.3%20BSD/gcc-2.5.8.binary.BSD-4.3.tap.bz2/download 2.5.8] |
| | + | *[[gcc]] [http://sourceforge.net/projects/bsd42/files/Package%20Tapes/4.3%20BSD/gcc-2.7.2.2.binary-4.3.tap.bz2/download 2.7.2.2] |
| | + | *[[bison]] [http://sourceforge.net/projects/bsd42/files/Package%20Tapes/4.3%20BSD/bison-1.25.binary.BSD-4.3.tap.bz2/download 1.25] |
| | + | *[[hack (game)|hack]] [http://sourceforge.net/projects/bsd42/files/Package%20Tapes/4.3%20BSD/hack-1.0.3.binary.BSD-4.3.tap.bz2/download 1.0.3] |
| | + | *[[gmake]] [http://sourceforge.net/projects/bsd42/files/Package%20Tapes/4.3%20BSD/make-3.75.binary.BSD-4.3.tap.bz2/download 3.75] |
| | + | *[[gzip]] [http://sourceforge.net/projects/bsd42/files/Package%20Tapes/4.2%20BSD/gzip-1.2.4.binary.BSD-4.2.tap.bz2/download 1.2.4] |
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| − | === Quasijarus === | + | == Follow ups == |
| − | * [[gcc]]-2.8.1x see ftp://ifctfvax.harhan.org/pub/unix/apps/gcc
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| − | * [[perl]] 4! I haven't really tried hard enough to get perl 5 to compile, might work with gcc...
| |
| − | * [[pdksh]] - right out of the box! http://www.cs.mun.ca/~michael/pdksh/
| |
| − | * A lot of software from that era, including early versions of many GNU programs, (emacs-18!) and so on
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| − | * A copy of [[Zork]] is also included in the distribution.
| |
| | | | |
| − | === U Wisconsin ===
| + | 4.3 BSD was superceded by the following versions: |
| − | * [[bash]] 1.14.7 | + | |
| − | * [[bash]] 2.0 | + | *[[4.3 BSD NFS Wisconsin Unix]] |
| − | * [[bison]] 1.25 | + | ** [[4.3 BSD+NFS Wisconsin Unix]] |
| − | * [[gcc]] 1.42
| + | *[[4.3 BSD Tahoe]] |
| − | * [[gcc]] 2.4.5 | + | *[[4.3 BSD Reno]] |
| − | * [[gzip]] 1.2.4
| + | *[[4.3 BSD Quasijarus]] |
| − | * [[irc]] 2.8.21 | |
| − | * [[GNUmake]] 3.75
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| − | * [[unzip]] 522
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| | | | |
| | {{Nav Unix}} | | {{Nav Unix}} |
| − | [[Category:CSRG BSD]] [[Category:BSD]] | + | |
| | + | [[Category: CSRG BSD]] |
