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From: btaylor@cup.portal.com (Bob Ray Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: History of *BSD
Message-ID: <100554@cup.portal.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 94 23:04:48 PST
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Could some kind soul tell me the history of this many flavored *BSD? Such as
was 386BSD written from scratch or was it a port of some version of BSD?
What are the differences between the various versions? Why is there no
concerted effort on ONE version?

Thanks for your information.

Bob Taylor
btaylor@cup.portal.com