From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jul 19 20:47:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B78BF14F16 for ; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 20:47:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id NAA14600; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 13:17:26 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id NAA83514; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 13:17:25 +0930 (CST) Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 13:17:24 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: "Brian O'Connor. (CF583173) HO 2nd Floor" Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: An article about Freebsd Message-ID: <19990720131724.E81840@freebie.lemis.com> References: <199907200342.XAA00366@mailfw1.ford.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <199907200342.XAA00366@mailfw1.ford.com>; from Brian O'Connor. (CF583173) HO 2nd Floor on Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 01:42:52PM +1000 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tuesday, 20 July 1999 at 13:42:52 +1000, Brian O'Connor. (CF583173) HO 2nd Floor wrote: > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Ron Rosson said; > > There is a small free magazine put out in CO and San Diego. Well in the > edition that came out July 16, 1999 the "I don't do windows" article was > about FreeBSD. Here is the URL: > > http://www.computoredge.com/sandiego/Editorial/idon'tdo.htm > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Hmm, not bad; but > > "Bill Joy, who wrote BSD...." > "Suns System V is where the term SysV comes from... " > > seems incorrect to me, I know that Bill Joy had a hand in the origional BSD > but to say he wrote it seems an exaggeration. Well, Bill Joy released the original BSD, but he didn't write all the software in it. > and I thought that SysV stood for the AT&T releases. Correct. Sun adopted System V a long time after it was developed. > Is he right? No. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message