Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 21:32:14 +0200 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: Nate Williams <nate@rocky.sri.MT.net> Cc: Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com>, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert), fn@pain.csrv.uidaho.edu, m.sapsed@bangor.ac.uk, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE Message-ID: <199512201932.VAA22008@grumble.grondar.za>
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Nate Williams wrote: > [ FreeBSD history ] > > > > > faried, 1.0 -> 1.1-g -> 1.1.5.1 -> 2.0 -> 2.0.5 -> current > > > > > > Only 1.0 ? > > > > > > I started with 386BSD 0.1 patchkit 0.2.3, 0.2.4 then moved to FreeBSD aft er > > > the Great Flame War(tm) of 1993 which gave us FreeBSD and NetBSD... :-) :-) :-) Nyah Nyah Nyah! <dodges tomatoes, rotten eggs and other missiles> _I_ started with 386BSD _before_ the patchkit days !!! <*WHACK* - Hey! No fair! (wipes tomato juice out of eyes)> > > My motherboard arrived October 9th 1992. I bought it to run 386bsd > > and it has never booted anything but 386BSD and then FreeBSD. I'm > > now talking with Rod to retire this machine to a network and mail > > server and upgrade. > > Wow, must be nice. My machine was bought to run 386bsd as well. It was > a 486/33 ISA box (it predated VLB), and it's *still* my main development > box, although it has seen some upgrades in it's day. Now, it's a 486/66 > box, and it may go to a 486/100 soon. However, the motherboard, disk > controller, and floppies are still original. I bought this 486dx50 for the same reason. I reckon it has at least a year of life in it, given my financial situation. Heck - I bought my first 300MB SCSI drive for UNIX, only I couldn't afford these @#$%ing SYSV4.2 pieces of %&*! that were going around. Ain't I glad now! > It *was* the development box for the 'interim release' and the builder > of patchkits until WC donated freefall. :) Hmm... Piece of history, then... Please take some photographs and submit them somewhere for posterity. (I volunteer if no-one else does) M -- Mark Murray 46 Harvey Rd, Claremont, Cape Town 7700, South Africa +27 21 61-3768 GMT+0200 Finger mark@grondar.za for PGP key
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