Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 19:03:17 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD early days... (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.990222185713.7463V-100000@current1.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <19990223130123.F93492@lemis.com>
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On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > [moved to -chat] > > On Monday, 22 February 1999 at 14:42:27 -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > > I was asked to write a bit on my memories.. > > so having done it, I figured it needed to be shared out and maybe those > > there might comment. (also tell me how to spell cgd's name) > > > > In 1990 I started working for TFS, a branch of TRW, a large american > > company with fingers in many industries. The section I was working for was > > doing back-end processing systems for banks and similar financial > > institutions. As part of these systems they needed small unix-based > > workstations with specialised hardware. We chose to use MACH 2.5 which was > > based upon BSD4.3 for much of it's userland and kernel functions. > > In 1991 > > If we're talking about 386BSD, it was 1992. Version 0.0 was released > in March 1992, version 0.1 was released on 14 July 1992, only 6 weeks > before NetBSD 0.9. I'm attaching a very few of the messages I saved, > mainly from USENET, at the time. Actually I think you are write and wrong.. I guess it was mid 1992 for 386BSD, but it's got to be one YEAR and 6 weeks till NetBSD I think you'll find.. there wouldn't have been time for us to develope the patchkit, LKMs the SCSI system, boot/install floppies etc. all in 6 weeks. NetBSD inheritted all this from 386BSD when they diverged. I'm sure that charles Hnnum an dothers were active on ref for a long time.. certainly not 6 weeks. At least it must have been over 6 months.. julian > > > I attended a course at UC Berkeley on BSD4.4 Kernel internals (taught by > > Kirk McKusick). At that course, Chris Demitriou (spelling?) > > Demetriou. (thanks :-) > > 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
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