Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2020 10:29:01 +0300 From: Dmitry Sivachenko <trtrmitya@gmail.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org> Cc: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r362420 - head/share/misc Message-ID: <9CFBFBA1-935D-40EF-AF81-B8C0D5B8B0DA@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <202006200407.05K47iuN022477@repo.freebsd.org> References: <202006200407.05K47iuN022477@repo.freebsd.org>
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> On 20 Jun 2020, at 07:07, Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > > Author: imp > Date: Sat Jun 20 04:07:44 2020 > New Revision: 362420 > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/362420 > > Log: > Correct 1BSD release date. > > The Quarter Century of Unix book said that 1BSD was released March 1979. > However, the 1BSD tape image that's on Kirk's historical unix collection has an > earlier date. > > It was common practice, at the time, to create a new copy of the tape from the > master system when a new tape was to go out, so several different versions of > 1BSD, etc were shipped from Berkerely. The date on the 1BSD tape in the Berkeley > archives on Kirk's DVD is dated in January 16 1979 on the label, and has dates > as late as Jan 29 (there's an UPDATE file that says this includes updates > through this date). Note this date as well. > > Modified: > head/share/misc/bsd-family-tree > > Modified: head/share/misc/bsd-family-tree > ============================================================================== > --- head/share/misc/bsd-family-tree Sat Jun 20 04:07:23 2020 (r362419) > +++ head/share/misc/bsd-family-tree Sat Jun 20 04:07:44 2020 (r362420) > @@ -477,6 +477,7 @@ Ninth Edition 1986-09-xx [QCU] > Tenth Edition 1989-10-xx [QCU] > > 1BSD late 1977 > + 1978-01-16 [DOC] Ah, this is my birthday (too)! :)
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