From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Feb 22 19:25:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AD3610FC2 for ; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 19:24:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id NAA15672; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 13:54:04 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id NAA49261; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 13:54:02 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19990223135401.N93492@lemis.com> Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 13:54:01 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Julian Elischer Cc: chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD early days... (fwd) References: <19990223130123.F93492@lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Julian Elischer on Mon, Feb 22, 1999 at 07:03:17PM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Monday, 22 February 1999 at 19:03:17 -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> [moved to -chat] >> >> On Monday, 22 February 1999 at 14:42:27 -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: >>> >>> I was asked to write a bit on my memories.. >>> so having done it, I figured it needed to be shared out and maybe those >>> there might comment. (also tell me how to spell cgd's name) >>> >>> In 1990 I started working for TFS, a branch of TRW, a large american >>> company with fingers in many industries. The section I was working for was >>> doing back-end processing systems for banks and similar financial >>> institutions. As part of these systems they needed small unix-based >>> workstations with specialised hardware. We chose to use MACH 2.5 which was >>> based upon BSD4.3 for much of it's userland and kernel functions. >>> In 1991 >> >> If we're talking about 386BSD, it was 1992. Version 0.0 was released >> in March 1992, version 0.1 was released on 14 July 1992, only 6 weeks >> before NetBSD 0.9. I'm attaching a very few of the messages I saved, >> mainly from USENET, at the time. > > Actually I think you are write and wrong.. I guess it was mid 1992 for > 386BSD, but it's got to be one YEAR and 6 weeks till NetBSD I think you'll > find.. Oops, yes. How did I miss that? Of course, it was all in the attachments. > there wouldn't have been time for us to develope the patchkit, LKMs > the SCSI system, boot/install floppies etc. all in 6 weeks. NetBSD > inheritted all this from 386BSD when they diverged. I'm sure that > charles Hnnum an dothers were active on ref for a long > time.. certainly not 6 weeks. At least it must have been over 6 > months.. This was 0.9. I don't know when they did the first release. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message