From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Aug 19 18:54:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA21636 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 18:54:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hwcn.org (james.hwcn.org [199.212.94.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA21623 for ; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 18:54:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hoek@hwcn.org) Received: from localhost (ac199@localhost) by hwcn.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA21131; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 21:51:11 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 21:51:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek To: Nik Clayton cc: Lanny Baron , Stewart Heckenberg , FreeBSD-Newbies Subject: Re: New to FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <19980819221739.44266@nothing-going-on.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Nik Clayton wrote: > FreeBSD is directly descended from 4.3BSD Net/2, everything prior to 2.0 > was based on this code (via 386BSD). Version 2.0 (the first version I If you go looking through the FreeBSD source code for long enough, you might find a comment like this, /* * colcrt - replaces col for crts with new nroff esp. when using tbl. * Bill Joy UCB July 14, 1977 */ Some people weren't even born 'till another couple years after that. ;-) -- Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! tIM...HOEk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message