Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 08:48:08 -0800 From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD. ORG" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Next release should be called 5.0 (was:4.4 BSD forever?) Message-ID: <200001111648.IAA52758@cwsys.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 10 Jan 2000 20:57:10 PST." <20000110205710.D98651@relay.nuxi.com>
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In message <20000110205710.D98651@relay.nuxi.com>, "David O'Brien"
writes:
> On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 09:28:24AM -0800, Tom wrote:
> >
> > Actually, no. The distribution is called 4.4BSD, not BSD 4.4. The same
> > goes for 4.1 or 4.2 which were known as 4.1BSD and 4.2BSD respectively.
> > Anyone who understands what BSD is, will know the difference.
>
> And the triva question is why was there 1BSD, 2BSD, 3BSD, and then the switch
> to 4.0BSD - 4.4BSD.
UCB and AT&T had agreed that there were to be no new releases of BSD
and that 4BSD was the final release. 4.1BSD - 4.4BSD were named such
because they were "officially" only modifications to 4BSD and as such
were not full releases. In fact they contained more new features than
previous releases and were modifications to 4BSD in name only.
It's all in Kirk's book the Design and Implementation of 4.4BSD.
It's interesting to note that this is what happens when lawyers and
marketing people get involved with release numbering. Note SunOS
4.1.4, Solaris 2.x, Solaris 7, 8 as another good example.
Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437
Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766
Sun/DEC Team, UNIX Group Internet: Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca
ITSD
Province of BC
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