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[Deirdre Saoirse]

Nick is misinformed. In fact, the fork was from BSD.

See http://perso.wanadoo.fr/levenez/unix/history.html

NeXTSTEP forked from 4.3BSD (june 1986 release) and a Mach build that was
pre-2.5. Mach was a fork from 4.2BSD. So BOTH of its inheritance lines
stem from BSD.

Geez, ya think you guys could read.

On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Rick Moen wrote:

> begin  Nick Moffitt quotation:
> > begin  Deirdre Schmeirdre quotation:
> 
> >> Umm, it's an older fork. Your point?
> > 
> > With respect, BSD did not fork from NeXT.  Nor was the reverse true.
> > What exactly are you referring to?
> 
> I believe that should be parsed as "it's [NeXTStep is] an older fork
> [from AT&T UNIX than was NetBSD/FreeBSD from AT&T UNIX]".

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