From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Mar 11 16:43:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA04378 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 16:43:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from chrome.jdl.com (chrome.onramp.net [199.1.166.202]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA04373 for ; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 16:43:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chrome.jdl.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA15980; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 18:45:45 -0600 Message-Id: <199603120045.SAA15980@chrome.jdl.com> X-Authentication-Warning: chrome.jdl.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" cc: julian@TFS.COM (Julian Elischer), chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: historical note.. In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 11 Mar 1996 14:43:04 PST." <199603112243.OAA25606@freefall.freebsd.org> Clarity-Index: null Threat-Level: none Software-Engineering-Dead-Seriousness: There's no excuse for unreadable code. Net-thought: If you meet the Buddha on the net, put him in your Kill file. Compiler-Motto: Wintermute is dead. Long live Wintermute. Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 18:45:45 -0600 From: Jon Loeliger Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------- > [ 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