Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 04:46:06 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Stephen McKay <syssgm@dtir.qld.gov.au> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: At Large Message-ID: <199709101146.EAA06217@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 10 Sep 1997 17:35:23 %2B1000." <199709100735.RAA19463@ogre.dtir.qld.gov.au>
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>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. 386BSD didn't exist until early '92, so including 1991 in this is still wrong. >> 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. :-) I think what really happened is that the writer confused NetBSD and FreeBSD and didn't realize that NetBSD didn't come into existence until '93. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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