From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Oct 16 23:09:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA08136 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 16 Oct 1996 23:09:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au (daemon@bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au [130.102.2.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA08131 for ; Wed, 16 Oct 1996 23:09:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au (8.7.6/8.7.3) id QAA19737 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 16:08:32 +1000 Received: from pandora.devetir.qld.gov.au by ogre.devetir.qld.gov.au (8.7.5/DEVETIR-E0.3a) with ESMTP id QAA25729 for ; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 16:14:11 +1000 (EST) Received: from orion.devetir.qld.gov.au (orion.devetir.qld.gov.au [167.123.2.2]) by pandora.devetir.qld.gov.au (8.6.10/8.6.12) with ESMTP id QAA04707 for ; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 16:10:23 +1000 Received: from localhost by orion.devetir.qld.gov.au (8.6.10/DEVETIR-0.3) id QAA27614; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 16:13:37 +1000 Message-Id: <199610170613.QAA27614@orion.devetir.qld.gov.au> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org cc: syssgm@devetir.qld.gov.au Subject: Last farewell to 386BSD Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 16:13:36 +1000 From: Stephen McKay Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk We have just upgraded our last 386BSD 0.1.24 machine to FreeBSD. It has been plodding along, monitoring machine status, for some years now. It pulled one too many death-by-out-of-swap stunts, and so I applied the FreeBSD 2.1.5 CD. For the nostalgic BSD history types, I note that 386BSD 0.1 dates from July 1992, and that few of the folks in CONTRIB.LIST are known to me, though one is Linus, and 4 of them ended up in the FreeBSD core team. The final (0.1.24) patchkit seems to be from July 1993. Oh! such hazy memories of times when just installing the thing put hair on your chest. /386bsd (the kernel) is from January 1994, so we've been fixing problems using just the reset button for, say, 31 months. Hmm. Slack? Not us! Is there any point to me telling you all this stuff? Well, I want to know if there is any life left in 386BSD. Dr Dobbs keeps advertising the "386BSD Reference CD". Is it good for anything? What do Messrs Jolitz do now? Whatever happened to Jesus Monroy, Jr? Did anybody get any "fairings"? We have to know! Stephen.