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Re: walnut creek cd rom
- Subject: Re: walnut creek cd rom
- From: bv@wjv.com (Bill Vermillion)
- Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 18:05:01 GMT
- Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm, comp.sys.apple2, comp.sys.cbm, comp.sys.tandy, comp.sys.ti
- Organization: W.J.Vermillion - Orlando / Winter Park
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In article <xkHZc.94061$JG7.16303@hydra.nntpserver.com>,
*ProteanThread* <rtdos@rtdos.com> wrote:
>"Bill Vermillion" <bv@wjv.com> wrote in message I3F3Dy.EI@wjv.com">news:I3F3Dy.EI@wjv.com...
>> In article <nbnZc.68948$JG7.12760@hydra.nntpserver.com>,
>> *ProteanThread* <rtdos@rtdos.com> wrote:
>>
>> >would anyone mind sending me either an ISO or CD of the Walnut
>> >Creek CD ROM Archive (and or MSDOS if they've got it) - further
>> >arrangements can be made here or email.
>>
>> "A" cd.
>> When WalnutCreek was online on the original form - cdrom.com - they
>> had close to 500GB of disk space in use. Thats going to be
>> about 700 CDs. Care to be more specific as to WHAT you are looking
>> for.
>the cpm and atari st / amiga cd's :-) damn that sux that they had to
>"close" what happened to them ?
Wind River bought the BSDI, Walnut Creek, and <I forget the name of the
HW vendor - Tel?? something - that build rack mount servers> group.
WindRiver builds embedded systems and based a lot on BSDI and they
bought that group to get some proprietary things from what I
undestand. Wind River has recently moved to Linux. They appear
to be quite large in the embedded worlds. See their site.
At the time of sale the FreeBSD archives were move to a site
in Denmark owned/operated by the Danish telephone company and
everything was much faster than on the T3 that WC had. The BSDI
resources went to WindRiver. The HW company was spun off. Jordan
Hubbard, who had gotten the FreeBSD movement going after Jolitz
seemed to give up, left the FreeBSD group and Walnut Creek and
became the head of the BSD part of the Apple OS/X.
Walnut Creek was also cdrom.com. All [or at least most] of those
archives were moved to Simtel. I'm having a problem getting a
brower up on that site at the moment, and it could be that it is an
ancient brower as my MS machine is maxed out at the moment on
a 4 hour DVD encoding process.
But give www.cdrom.com a try to see if the resources are there.
It seems that nothing that was ever available on the net truly goes
away. You might slog through google if cdrom.com or Simtel
don't give you any results.
Bill
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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com