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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!news.ner.bbnplanet.net!public.x.org!kaleb From: kaleb@x.org (Kaleb KEITHLEY) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: History of PC-Unices Date: 11 Mar 96 11:05:34 GMT Organization: X Consortium Lines: 17 Message-ID: <kaleb.826542334@exalt> References: <W_MF.96Mar6094546@fawn.unibw-hamburg.de> <4hlv7n$nma@zk2nws.zko.dec.com> <4hn5kf$4pp@nntp5.u.washington.edu> <4ht83p$dfi@park.uvsc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: exalt.x.org X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #5 Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> writes: >kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu wrote: >] Nice summary, but I think you have the NetBSD and 386BSD entires a little >] messed up. >] >] 1992, Jolitz released 386BSD to the public > ^- 0.1. 0.0 was released > before that to a small group. How do you define "small"? 0.0 was publicly available on the net, but it didn't grok FDISK partitions, so a lot of people who might have liked to use it (like me) could not, not without abandoning their other partitions. -- Kaleb KEITHLEY