On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 07:01:36PM +0000, Lewis Thompson wrote: > I'm really asking if anybody can suggest any particularly interesting > topics that I can go away and research and then include in my essay.
I was on a pretty short timescale for this essay but after attempting to get the history /and/ a specific breakdown of a FreeBSD feature, I quickly found it was almost impossible to get the level of detail I required in 1,000 words. As a result I concentrated on the history of UNIX, specifically BSD, up until 386BSD / settlement of the lawsuit in 1994. I've put a PDF on my website. Anybody that is interested can see it at http://www.lewiz.org/~lewiz/, it's at the bottom under ``Released Documents''. I will freely admit now that I am even now, after extensive research, a bit unfamiliar with the exact order of events for the lawsuit. It was hard for me to determine if Jolitz write custom files /before/ the lawsuit, or after. If anybody can confirm or correct what I've written on this, I would greatly appreciate it -- even though the essay is already submitted. Thanks to everybody who gave me suggestions. They were all very useful -- especially the links to histories, etc. Best wishes, -lewiz. -- I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. --Bob Dylan, 1964. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -| msn:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | url:www.lewiz.org |-
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