Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 23:04:02 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Another BSD anniversary Message-ID: <19970729230402.HT63113@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199707180510.OAA04561@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>; from Michael Smith on Jul 18, 1997 14:40:49 %2B0930 References: <199707180436.WAA16329@rocky.mt.sri.com> <199707180510.OAA04561@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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As Michael Smith wrote: > As one of the many who were hapless slaves of another operating > system, or at best amazed onlookers at the time, may I suggest that on > this anniversary those of you who _were_ involved (and you know who > you are) hoist a receptacle of your favorite beverage in thanks to > yourselves and your fellows. Ok, i just filled a glass of wine... My 386BSD 0.1 installation floppies are still around on a shelf. I've talked with Hellmuth Michaelis last weekend, he's still got his 0.0 setup somewhere (i deleted my floppies to gain space for 0.1 -- blech!). I know David Greenman still owns a set of 0.0 floppies. Still by its time, the system (0.0) amazed me with its instability. :) I've been working with Interactive Unix before on the same machine, and BSD looked a lot more promising as an experimental platform. Well, despite of the many crashes in these times, i think i never even lost a file -- and that was great, compared to the ``robustness'' (no!) of Interactive's S51K filesystem. Later on, we've started to use 0.1-pk0.2.4 in the company even. This machine got finally equipped with an IDE and an ESDI drive, which required to hack the wdc(4) driver to cope with two controllers, something that was basically unusual in the PC world by this time. It's even possible that this machine was the very first 386BSD machine running such a configuration. (I think Wilko Bulte came up with a similar setup shortly later.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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