On Thu, 20 Mar 1997 02:26:09 -0500 (EST) 
 Carl S Shapiro <cshapiro@sparky.ic.sunysb.edu> wrote:

 > Any particular reason why NetBSD was chosen?

While I can't answer that, I can speculate:

	Because it's a darn good OS with acceptable licensing
	terms that runs on their target platform.

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