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freebsd
     
         a free operating system based on the bsd
        4.4-lite release from computer systems research group at
        the university of california at berkeley.
     
        freebsd requires an isa, eisa, vesa, or pci based
        computer with an intel 80386sx to pentium cpu or
        compatible amd or cyrix cpu with 4 megabytes of ram and
        60mb of disk space.
     
        some of freebsd's features are: preemptive multitasking with
        dynamic priority adjustment to ensure smooth and fair sharing
        of the computer between applications and users.  multiuser
        access - peripherals such as printers and tape drives can be
        shared between all users.  complete tcp/ip networking
        including slip, ppp, nfs and nis.  memory
        protection, demand-paged virtual memory with a merged
        vm/buffer cache design.  freebsd was designed as a 32 bit
        operating system.  x window system x11r6 provides a
        graphical user interface.  binary compatibility with many
        programs built for sco, bsdi, netbsd, 386bsd, and
        linux.  hundreds of ready-to-run applications in the freebsd
        ports collection.  freebsd is source code compatible with
        most popular commercial unix systems and thus most
        applications require few, if any, changes to compile.  shared
        libraries.  a full compliment of c, c++, fortran and
        perl development tools and many other languages.  source
        code for the entire system is available.  extensive on-line
        documentation.
     
        home http://www.freebsd.org/.
     
        ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/freebsd or try your nearest
        mirror site listed at the home site or buy the cd-rom from
        walnut creek.
     
        1998-11-24
     
     
see also:
operating system bsd 4.4-lite computer systems research group university of california at berkeley isa eisa 
vesa pci intel 80386sx pentium amd 
cyrix ram preemptive multitasking peripherals tcp/ip 
slip ppp nfs nis memory protection 
demand-paged virtual memory vm buffer cache 32 bit operating system x window system 
graphical user interface binary compatibility sco bsdi netbsd 
386bsd linux source code compatible unix shared libraries 
c c++ fortran perl source code 
lt;homegt; lt;ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/freebsdgt; mirror site cd-rom walnut creek 

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