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To: Stephen McKay <syssgm@dtir.qld.gov.au>
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Subject: Re: At Large 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 10 Sep 1997 17:35:23 +1000."
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 04:46:06 -0700
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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