From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Sep 10 00:36:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA13892 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 10 Sep 1997 00:36:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bunyip.cc.uq.edu.au (daemon@bunyip.cc.uq.edu.au [130.102.2.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA13874 for ; Wed, 10 Sep 1997 00:36:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by bunyip.cc.uq.edu.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA15514 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Wed, 10 Sep 1997 17:36:10 +1000 Received: from localhost.dtir.qld.gov.au by ogre.dtir.qld.gov.au (8.7.5/DEVETIR-E0.3a) with SMTP id RAA19463; Wed, 10 Sep 1997 17:35:24 +1000 (EST) Message-Id: <199709100735.RAA19463@ogre.dtir.qld.gov.au> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org cc: syssgm@dtir.qld.gov.au Subject: Re: At Large References: <199709090409.VAA13111@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: <199709090409.VAA13111@implode.root.com> from David Greenman at "Tue, 09 Sep 1997 04:09:55 +0000" Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 17:35:23 +1000 From: Stephen McKay Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tuesday, 9th September 1997, David Greenman wrote: >>"Although not many of >>his fellows in the Laboratory for Computer Science knew it, Mycroft >>was on the board of Free-BSD, an international project that worked, >>like the Free Software Foundation, to create a version of Unix >>without code from AT&T." > > 1) FreeBSD didn't exist in 1991-1992 But 386BSD was all the rage at that time. It would be easy for a slightly fuzzy memory to forget the original name of FreeBSD's roots, or to bend reality while trying to simplify it. > 2) There's only one mycroft at MIT that I know about, and he was never part > of the FreeBSD "board" or development. But he was a patchkit contributor. So it looks like another one of those little history rewrites that the world regards as fact but which amuses those who were actually there. Situation normal. :-) Stephen.