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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.nla.gov.au!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!informatik.uni-bremen.de!nordwest.pop.de!uniol!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!narses.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: History of PC-Unices Date: 11 Mar 1996 23:53:45 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 16 Message-ID: <4i2ee9$16o@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <W_MF.96Mar6094546@fawn.unibw-hamburg.de> <4hlv7n$nma@zk2nws.zko.dec.com> <4hnf3b$2rh@orca.osg.gov.bc.ca> <4hu5g5$1vs@heathers.stdio.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 risner@heathers.stdio.com (James Risner) writes: > 386BSD existed before Linux was even started. > Or at least Linus claims 386BSD existed before he started work > on Linux. This is wrong. By the time 386BSD 0.0 has been released, Linux was about 0.1.X (forgot the exact version number). However, it was a completely unknown system by that time. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)