Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 14:26:25 +0000 From: Lewis Thompson <purple@lewiz.net> To: FreeBSD-questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Essay. Message-ID: <20031114142625.GA48452@lewiz.org> In-Reply-To: <20031112190135.GA89662@lewiz.org> References: <20031112190135.GA89662@lewiz.org>
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--8t9RHnE3ZwKMSgU+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 07:01:36PM +0000, Lewis Thompson wrote: > I'm really asking if anybody can suggest any particularly interesting > topics that I can go away and research and then include in my essay. I was on a pretty short timescale for this essay but after attempting to get the history /and/ a specific breakdown of a FreeBSD feature, I quickly found it was almost impossible to get the level of detail I required in 1,000 words. As a result I concentrated on the history of UNIX, specifically BSD, up until 386BSD / settlement of the lawsuit in 1994. I've put a PDF on my website. Anybody that is interested can see it at http://www.lewiz.org/~lewiz/, it's at the bottom under ``Released Documents''. I will freely admit now that I am even now, after extensive research, a bit unfamiliar with the exact order of events for the lawsuit. It was hard for me to determine if Jolitz write custom files /before/ the lawsuit, or after. If anybody can confirm or correct what I've written on this, I would greatly appreciate it -- even though the essay is already submitted. Thanks to everybody who gave me suggestions. They were all very useful -- especially the links to histories, etc. Best wishes, -lewiz. --=20 I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. --Bob Dylan, 1964. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -| msn:purple@lewiz.net | jabber:lewiz@jabber.org | url:www.lewiz.org |- --8t9RHnE3ZwKMSgU+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/tOYRItq0KFQv7T8RAhZhAKC37gYRATbJpwnVzQCw6vzhy4s29gCgyFfS 5319RDF8Qn80eKz0lYO3DsM= =vUEd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --8t9RHnE3ZwKMSgU+--
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