Getting 3b1 source code...?

Mark J. Horn sparkie at picard.cs.wisc.edu
Sat Mar 16 04:54:45 AEST 1991


In article <094715.17868 at timbuk.cray.com> jaws at sequoia.cray.com (James A. Wheeler) writes:
>In article <1991Mar15.130239.20389 at cbnews.att.com> mvadh at cbnews.att.com (andrew.d.hay) writes:
>>i also have a Modest Proposal (TM):  set up a non-profit corporation
>>under the umbrella of ASCRC (a small computer software foundation?).
>>get a source license from AT&T for the 3b1 (or convince them to turn
>>over the source, with the obligation to support the 3b1) *and* from
>>convergent/unisys for miniframe ctix.  this would be funded by selling
>[ ...Lots of good points deleted]
>I like this Idea, how many are willing to investigate? 

I'm not willing to investigate, but I'm willing to invest in the outcome.  
Ooh, I see symbolic links... I see filenames > 14 chars... Wow!  how about NFS?
Even easier: software support for >1 floppy and >2 hard drives!!  John Milton's
HD2 project might get VERY popular.

Anyway, backdown to a little reality, an important question is: how much 
would something like this cost?

- sparkie
P.S.	I changed the newsgroups line to only include c.s.3b1
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