From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jan 19 10:45:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from duh.org (client102040.atl.mediaone.net [24.31.102.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5828D37B401 for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 10:45:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from [10.69.1.8] (xpc.int.duh.org [10.69.1.8]) by duh.org (8.11.0/8.11.0/6.0.0) with ESMTP id f0JIhG122329Fri, 19 Jan 2001 13:43:16 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 13:44:19 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time) From: Todd Vierling To: James Howard Cc: , Subject: Re: Why did NetBSD and FreeBSD diverge? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-X-Sender: tv@duh.dynip.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, James Howard wrote: : 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. The full NetBSD 0.8 release announcement was archived. You can find one copy of it at: ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/release/NetBSD/NetBSD-0.8 This post from cgd is dated 19-Apr-1993. Though it isn't as formal as later NetBSD release announcements, this is probably the closest thing to a "0.8 release announcement" that exists. -- -- Todd Vierling * Wasabi NetBSD: Run with it. -- NetBSD 1.5 now available on CD-ROM -- http://www.wasabisystems.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message