Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 08:22:27 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Paul T. Root" <proot@iaces.com> Cc: Patrick Seal <patseal@hyperhost.net>, notme@lvdi.net, db@year2000.dk, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD = unix/linux ? Message-ID: <19990731082227.E56925@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199907301219.HAA00306@iaces.com>; from Paul T. Root on Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 07:19:17AM -0500 References: <19990730010959.A83656@hyperhost.net> <199907301219.HAA00306@iaces.com>
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On Friday, 30 July 1999 at 7:19:17 -0500, Paul T. Root wrote: > In a previous message, Patrick Seal said: >> On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 12:15:12PM +0930i, Greg Lehey wrote: >>> And while we're on the subject, it's BSD/OS, made by BSDI. I wish I >>> knew where this habit of spelling it with a lower case i (BSDi) came >>> from, but it's wrong. >> I copied that directly from a diagram from "The Design and Implementation of >> the 4.4BSD Operation System". Well, except for the lowercase part. I guess >> the book's wrong too. Unless BSD/OS used to be called BSDI?? >> >> Here's a uname -a on a BSD/OS machine: >> BSD/OS hyperhost.net 3.0 BSDI BSD/OS 3.0 Virtual Kernel #0: Fri Aug 15 03:41:58 PST 1997 >> jradford@gargamel.lightrealm.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/VIRTUAL i386 >> >> Not my machine, but I have an account. > > As I recall, I had version 1.0 from BSDI, it was called BSD/386. That was > based on 4.3 Tahoe (Reno?). It was based on Net/2, like 386BSD and FreeBSD 1.x. > With the settlement of the suite, everyone switched to a base of > 4.4BSD lite, which was unencumbered. Correct. > Also, BSD stands for Berkeley Software Distributions, as defined by > USB. Do you mean UCB? > When BSDI started, the made it Berkeley Software Design, Inc. Correct. That's why this abbreviation BSDi makes so little sense. They also changed the name from BSD/386 to BSD/OS. The name change coincided with release 2.0, which was when they moved to 4.4BSD-Lite, but the background was that they wanted to port to other platforms, and the /386 was inappropriate. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html 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-questions" in the body of the message
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