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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Free Unix History (was Re: On Kaleb Keithley's neg. comments on Linux (Xaw3d Distrib.))
Date: 19 Oct 1996 00:35:45 GMT
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G Sumner Hayes <sumner+@CMU.EDU> wrote:
> [Please remove comp.os.linux.x from followups;...]
(Please use Followup-To to express such a wish. ;-)
> Kaleb Keithley (wow, we come full circle!) responded:
>
> > 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.
It didn't run withouth an 80387 either. I've extra bought the MathCo
in order to run 386BSD 0.0 on my 386sx/16 by that time. :-)
> Terry responded:
> > "Largely unusable without *specific* hardware components and
> > specific BIOS/CMOS behaviour". In other words, the set of
> > people who could accept distribution was very small.
> >
> > Only a few people were able to run 0.0. I personally ran it
Well, i wouldn't consider a disk and an 80387 ``specific hardware''.
> I _still_ would love to see release dates for 386BSD 0.{0,1}, NetBSD,
> FreeBSD, and OpenBSD if people have them archived away somewhere...
Jordan Hubbard wrote down the FreeBSD history marks in the handbook.
There's an entire chapter describing the early steps, have a look at
www.freebsd.org.
> Was 386BSD released at the end of 1991 or some time in 1992? Perhaps
> we'll never know...
February 1992, as well as my memory serves. I've fetched it in March
1992 from an FTP server nearby.
Perhaps you should ask David Greenman (davidg@freebsd.org), i know
that he's still got a set of 386BSD 0.0 floppies. It should be
possible to determine the latest file there in the cpio files. Alas,
i've dumped my 0.0 distribution by the time 386BSD 0.1 appeared (which
i've still got on _still readable_ ;) floppies). How could i know
that it might become an important part of history some day...?
--
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. ;-)