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Re: unix clones for the pc abound

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Date: Sunday, August 9, 1992 - 1:45 pm

In article <9208082328.28@rmkhome.UUCP>, rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes:
|> In article <=6xmbtd.zmbenhal@netcom.com> zmbenhal@netcom.com (Zeyd M. Ben-Halim) writes:
|> >In article <920806092858.1eac@UCSVAX.SDSU.EDU> COMPR4002@UCSVAX.SDSU.EDU writes:
|> >>Several freely downloadable Unix clones are available for 386 PCs.
|> >>These include minix, linux, mach, and 386bsd.  Can anyone give a
|> >               ^^^^^         ^^^^
|> >Minix is NOT a freely downloadable system. It is a commercial product of
|> >Prentice-Hall.
|> >Mach is not a unix clone but a microkernel on top which you could build a unix
|> >clone. None are freely available, but FSF is working on one (HURD).
|> 
|> 
|> There is a single-server BSD/Mach distribution available from CMU.
I think they were referring to the availability of source code.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but don't you need a unix source code liscense
to have all the source code to a useable mach system?

|> Rick Kelly   rmk@rmkhome.UUCP        unixland!rmkhome!rmk    rmk@frog.UUCP

Bill
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