Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 17:50:14 -0700 (MST) From: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com> To: root@kew.com (Snuffles on Sonata) Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.4 BSD forever? Message-ID: <200001130050.RAA03230@freeway.dcfinc.com> In-Reply-To: <20000109042111.D0285A80F@kendra.ne.mediaone.net> from Snuffles on Sonata at "Jan 8, 0 11:21:11 pm"
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As I recall, Snuffles on Sonata wrote: > Some of us remember 4.1 and 4.2 as well. :-) My first BSD-flavored UNIX was a 4.2 from Mt. Xinu running on a DEC VAX 11/780. Though I'd been involved in some SysVish thingies (remember Convergent Technologies?) before that. > From a pragmatic standpoint, going to release FreeBSD 5.0 and > skipping all 4.x versions avoids confusion and honors the Source. > With this, the sequence remains linear and obvious, and has a > specific reason. Of all the comments on numbering I've read so far, I like this one. Numbers increase, so comparisons work. It pays homage, in a slightly esoteric (and geeky) way. It gives an opportunity to evangelize a bit to someone who enquires. -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.net DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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