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Date:      Sat, 05 Feb 2005 03:02:11 +0000
From:      Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org>
To:        Tom Huppi <thuppi@huppi.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: what are patches ?
Message-ID:  <42043733.7060002@freebsd.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 wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

He wasn't. 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/history.html

Mark


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