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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: 20 Oct 1996 15:25:37 GMT
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richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) wrote:

> >So a 1991 release of 386BSD is not ruled out...
> 
> 386BSD 0.0 was released in March 1992.
> 
> Below is a message about it that I received (it had been forwarded many
> times) on Friday 13 March 1992.

That's the most authentic historic message for it i've seen recently.
And it is identical to my memories.

>  I immediately ordered a new disk and a
> floating point coprocessor!

Me too. :-)

-- 
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. ;-)