Subject: Re: O'reilly's BSD4.4-Lite CDROM
To: Gerry Simmons Jr. <darykon!simmons@nwnexus.wa.com>
From: Volker A. Brandt <volker@sfb256.iam.uni-bonn.de>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 02/23/1995 19:15:10
> Just curious. A few people have mentioned the O'Reilly 4.4 Lite CDROM.
> A few months ago I purchsed it. It looked like a good thing to have.
I think so, too.
> Q: How much of the code on the 4.4 Lite CDROM is a direct port to NetBSD?
Hmmm ... I'll leave that to the gurus :-)
> Q: Was this the starting point for NetBSD 1.0?
I guess so ...
> Q: What kinds of things needed to be modified for NetBSD 1.0?
You could always do a diff -r ...
> Q: Does anyone find having this CD useful? And if I might ask, what for?
Well, just now I copied the sources for the old talk program because I need
a way of communicating with a Sun workstation. It doesn't work, of course, but
at least I could try ...
-- Volker
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