Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 18:45:45 -0600 From: Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl.com> To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@freefall.freebsd.org> Cc: julian@TFS.COM (Julian Elischer), chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: historical note.. Message-ID: <199603120045.SAA15980@chrome.jdl.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 11 Mar 1996 14:43:04 PST." <199603112243.OAA25606@freefall.freebsd.org>
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So, like "Jonathan M. Bresler" was saying to me just the other day:
> Julian Elischer wrote:
> >
> > I just found this in the BSD4.3 kernel I'm trying to debug..
> > it's from vmparam.h..
>
> HEY! somebody took this out fo the FreeBSD sources! not fair.
> this is part of our heritage. so it make the source distribution
> a little larger. so what disk is cheaper than ever.
>
> i want it back. please submit a diff. ;^)
>
> jmb
>
> ps. for those dealing with too much stress, and unable to tell
> this is my attempt at humor.
I was curious too. So I fired off a piece of mail to
our eternally good buddy Keith. With all due respect,
I forward his private mail to me. He says:
To: jdl@jdl.com
From: Keith Bostic
Subject: Re: Historical note...
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 15:58:45 EST
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> [ You don't just happen to know who wrote this, do you? :-)
> But, to be a '81 era comment, it's gotta be more like 4.1,
> (or 2.9?) or earlier, right? -- jdl ]
Bill Joy checked in the SCCS delta, presumably he wrote the text.
And, yes, this comment disappeared before the 4.2 release, so it's
not a 4.3BSD kernel.
--keith
Oh wow!
jdl
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