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From: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen)
Subject: Re: LINUX SUCKS!!!!
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References: <085334Z20101994@anon.penet.fi> <39bscj$9r1@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <REINHOLZ.94Nov4101826@SG0D12.sig01> <CyrB5r.FqG@news.cern.ch> <39gra6$p1@delirium.ow.nl>
Date: Sun, 6 Nov 1994 19:41:15 GMT
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In <39gra6$p1@delirium.ow.nl> ed@OW.org (Edvard Tuinder) writes:

>Well, it may sound as a silly answer, but the first BSD version was 1.
>Yes really! It was based on UTS Sixth edition from Bell Labs.
>Ok, it wasn't in 74, but in 77, but what's only two (almost...) years in a
>man's lifetime..

77 - 74 = 3.  almost two, indeed.

>Another one, not that important though, but have you ever heard of something
>called the ARPAnet? One of the predecesors of the Internet. Ever heard the
>story about whom created the network code for this network?

>Good guess... Berkeley by the means of 4.2BSD and 4.3BSD.

This is contradictory with the statement above, as the ARPAnet was
started in 1969...

Rob
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