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   Doug Freyburger to rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated   
   Re: B5 Actor Sighting - Bruce Boxleitner   
   12 Jan 11 21:24:18   
   
   M.J. Sammon wrote:   
   > Doug Freyburger wrote:   
   >   
   >> Anyways, this was a   
   >> VMS 3.2 system at a time when the current UNIX was BSD   
   >> 4.1 with BSD 4.2 being a fresh release.  Sun was a tiny niche   
   >> player at the time with a brand new manufacturing facility.   
   >>   
   >   
   > Sorry, being an ex Bell Labs researcher, I have to give credit where credit   
   is due.   
   > While you're correct in that the version of BSD at the time was 4.1,   
   > the official version of UNIX at the time (System III) was still controlled   
   by AT&T/Bell Labs.   
   > It was soon succeeded by System V which included features from BSD.   
      
   Ooops - The current systems I worked on at the time were VMS 3.2   
   doug@jpl-vlsi.arpa and BSD 4.1 ihnp4!escher!doug.  I phrased it poorly.   
   Thanks for the correction to what I did write.   
      
   > Thank God the movie didn't make any references to Solaris -- I'm sure   
   > the Master Control Program (Larry Ellison) would love free marketing for his   
   product.   
      
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