Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ut-sally.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!hogpc!houti!ariel!vax135! cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!hao!seismo!ut-sally!jbc From: j...@ut-sally.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Bell/Berkeley comparisons Message-ID: <3189@ut-sally.UUCP> Date: Fri, 24-Aug-84 11:56:49 EDT Article-I.D.: ut-sally.3189 Posted: Fri Aug 24 11:56:49 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 30-Aug-84 01:45:01 EDT Organization: MCC, Austin, TX Lines: 78 To address several issues which continue to arise .... 1. We have presented two papers comparing "Bell UNIX" and "Berkeley UNIX": "UNIX System III and 4.1BSD, A Practical Comparison" (Winter 1983 USENIX Conference, San Diego) "UNIX System V and 4.1C BSD" (Summer 1983 USENIX Conference, Toronto) Contrary to popular rumor, we have presented nothing comparing: 4.1 BSD and 4.2 BSD System V and 4.1 BSD System V and 4.2 BSD System V Release 2 and anything The Toronto paper obliquely referenced the state of 4.2 BSD at that time. It does not necessarily correspond in all details to the actual system which was distributed some time later. 2. The paper "UNIX System V and 4.1C BSD" is marked (c) Copyright 1983 by the Regents of the University of Texas. solely in order to prevent its sale by anyone other than the USENIX Association. The paper may be distributed free of cost in any quantity, by any means and by any entity so long as the whole paper, in one of the forms originally distributed by us, including the copyright notice, is distributed. Properly attributed quotations in reviews and other papers are of course also permitted. The paper is available in the Proceedings of the Summer 1983 USENIX Conference, by anonymous FTP as compare.doc from ut-sally.ARPA, and by UUCP from ut-sally.UUCP and several other UUCP sites; it was also posted to net.sources on USENET. To use anonymous ftp, connect with ftp to ut-sally, login as anonymous, password guest, and get or retrieve compare.doc. The authors are no longer associated with utexas-11 (which is now known as ut-ngp, anyway), but principally with ut-sally (which happens to be the VAX-11/780 referred to in the paper). We would rather not have to mail out individual copies to everyone in the world. Get it from your neighbor if you can. If there is still demand we might post to net.sources again. 3. We feel that questions of comparative performance were adequately treated at the Salt Lake City USENIX Conference, particularly in: "UNIX System V and 4BSD Performance" Jeffrey P. Lankford, AT&T Bell Laboratories "Measuring and Improving the Performance of 4.2BSD" Sam Leffler (Lucasfilm, Ltd), Mike Karels, and M. Kirk McKusick (U.C. Berkeley) It is therefore not our intention at this time to distribute the results of any such studies which we ourselves may have conducted. ------------------------ Current addresses: John B. Chambers John S. Quarterman ARPANET/MILNET: j...@ut-sally.ARPA j...@ut-sally.ARPA CSNET: jbc@ut-sally jsq@ut-sally UUCP: ihnp4!ut-sally!jbc ihnp4!ut-sally!jsq USPS: MCC Department of Computer Sciences 9430 Research Blvd. University of Texas at Austin Echelon I, Suite 200 Austin, Texas 78712 Austin, TX 78759 ------------------------ UNIX is a trademark of Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc. VAX is a trademark of Digital Equipment Corporation.