Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 20:49:27 -0500 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: Tom Huppi <thuppi@huppi.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what are patches ? Message-ID: <16900.9767.174278.846002@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.58.0502041958160.74497@nuumen.pair.com> References: <ef60af0905020416242ee9cac3@mail.gmail.com> <42041327.7020107@makeworld.com> <ef60af0905020416362733ef5d@mail.gmail.com> <Pine.BSF.4.58.0502041958160.74497@nuumen.pair.com>
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Tom Huppi writes: > Almost totally unrelated, but this reminds me of a very pleasant > conversation I had with on of the early FreeBSD developers. He > mentioned that the FreeBSD project grew out of what was known as > 'the unofficial 386BSD patch kit' or something like that name. He > said that it got to the point where the patch set was indeed > larger than the distribution of the OS of interest (which was, I > believe, the first port of BSD Unix to the x86 architecture.) I > didn't get the sense that he was joking about that. As I understand the history, he wasn't. 386BSD hit a certain point ... and stalled. _Completely_ stalled; the motor was making noise, but there was no actual movement. Robert Huff
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