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From: julian@mailhub.tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD
Date: 10 Dec 1995 15:37:55 GMT
Organization: TRW Financial Systems, Oakland, CA
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In article <MICHAELV.95Dec10014611@MindBender.HeadCandy.com>,
Michael L. VanLoon <michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> wrote:
>In article <4a7pl3$jns@uriah.heep.sax.de> j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:
: Linux is even older than 386BSD, which is the ancestor of FreeBSD.
: By the time 386BSD 0.0 appeared (March 1992), i've seen Linux 0.14 (if
: my memory serves me well) on the same FTP server.
386bsd 0.0 was before march 92..
I started on 386bsd 0.1 and that was around then..
386bsad was the anscestor of freebsd 1.x but was only the godparent of 2.x
as all code was switched to sources from 4.4.. of course 386bsd bugfixes etc.
went into 4.4 as well..
As Michael says below, 386bsd was only one variant of BSD
SUN microsystems was founded by guys who'd been working on BSD for several
years by that stage and It's so fuzzy in my memory I can't say when that was,
exept that I think they were using a 68010 or maybe a 68000
in their first designs (hmm 1980?)
:Right. But none of those three is as old as _BSD_. BSD code predates
:all free PC "unix" systems. In fact, it predates the Intel-based PC.
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