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Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 18:17:38 -0500 (CDT)
From: Alex Nash <nash@mcs.net>
Subject: Re: *BSD flavours?
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On 11 Jun, Nik Clayton wrote:
> In FreeBSD's case this was via BSD386. FreeBSD started off as 386BSD + 
> 'the patchkit' which eventually got to be so large that a number of 
> individuals (Jordan Hubbard, Terry Lambert, amongst others) got tired 
> of maintaining all the patches and split it off as a separate product 
> after Bill Joy (?) stopped supporting 386BSD.

Not Bill Joy, Bill Jolitz and Lynne Jolitz.

Alex


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