Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 07:19:17 -0500 (CDT) From: "Paul T. Root" <proot@iaces.com> To: patseal@hyperhost.net (Patrick Seal) Cc: grog@lemis.com, notme@lvdi.net, db@year2000.dk, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD = unix/linux ? Message-ID: <199907301219.HAA00306@iaces.com> In-Reply-To: <19990730010959.A83656@hyperhost.net> from Patrick Seal at "Jul 30, 99 01:09:59 am"
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In a previous message, Patrick Seal said: > I copied that directly from a diagram from "The Design and Implementation of > the 4.4BSD Operation System". Well, except for the lowercase part. I guess > the book's wrong too. Unless BSD/OS used to be called BSDI?? > > Here's a uname -a on a BSD/OS machine: > BSD/OS hyperhost.net 3.0 BSDI BSD/OS 3.0 Virtual Kernel #0: Fri Aug 15 03:41:58 PST 1997 > jradford@gargamel.lightrealm.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/VIRTUAL i386 > > Not my machine, but I have an account. > > On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 12:15:12PM +0930i, Greg Lehey wrote: > > On Thursday, 29 July 1999 at 22:06:58 -0400, Patrick Seal wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 06:40:16PM -0700i, notme wrote: > > >> Well, FreeBSD is a direct decendent from BSDi, which is written by those As I recall, I had version 1.0 from BSDI, it was called BSD/386. That was based on 4.3 Tahoe (Reno?). With the settlement of the suite, everyone switched to a base of 4.4BSD lite, which was unencumbered. Also, BSD stands for Berkeley Software Distributions, as defined by USB. When BSDI started, the made it Berkeley Software Design, Inc. > > > > And while we're on the subject, it's BSD/OS, made by BSDI. I wish I > > knew where this habit of spelling it with a lower case i (BSDi) came > > from, but it's wrong. > > > > Greg > > -- > > When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. > > For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html > > See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers > > finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > > > > -- > ------------------------------------ _____________________________________ > Patrick Seal |"Microsoft isn't evil, they just make > <patseal@hyperhost.net> | really crappy operating systems." > Hyperhost - http://www.hyperhost.net| -Linus Torvalds > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- In a Wonderland they lie, Ever drifting down the stream-- Dreaming as the days go by, Lingering in the gold gleam-- Dreaming as the summers die: Life, what is it but a dream? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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