From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jan 19 9: 0: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.well.com (smtp.well.com [208.178.101.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 728FD37B69D for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 08:59:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from well.com (howardjp@well.com [208.178.101.2]) by smtp.well.com (8.8.5/8.8.4) with ESMTP id IAA05933; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 08:59:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (howardjp@localhost) by well.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA11423; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 08:59:38 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 08:59:38 -0800 (PST) From: James Howard To: Greg Lehey Cc: opentrax@email.com, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, netbsd-advocacy@NetBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why did NetBSD and FreeBSD diverge? In-Reply-To: <20010118012245.D10950@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Greg Lehey wrote: > 14 July: Bill Jolitz releases version 0.1 of 386BSD. > > At this point, BSD/386 was quite a usable system. I was > running both Interactive UNIX/386, a System V.3.2 > derivative, and BSD/386 0.3.3, and the BSD/386 was already > much more polished than Interactive. By all accounts 386BSD > was still a disaster. I once started trying to install it, > but didn't get very far. > > Apr 1993: NetBSD 0.8 came out. > > Dec 1993: FreeBSD 1.0 came out. It's hard to find a specific date, but the NetBSD/mac68k history page (http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/mac68k/history.html) says that somewhere around here students at Virginia Tech had started porting to the Mac and later merged those changes into NetBSD in time for the 0.8 release in April of 1993. Just looking at the timelines, it appears that NetBSD was always pretty independent of 386BSD, but the NetBSD history says they took cde from 386BSD for the Mac port. Obviously, this was not part of hte 386BSD development effort. Was this because Jolitz didn't care about portability? The name suggests it :) Jamie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message